English Explanatory Dictionary

mop

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An implement for washing floors or similar, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.
  2. A wash with a mop; the act of mopping.
  3. A dense head of hair.
  4. An annual fair where servants were historically hired.
  5. A tassel worn in a buttonhole to indicate ones occupation in such a fair.
  6. A firearm particularly if it has a large magazine (compare broom, but still can be related to MP)
  7. Fellatio.
  8. A squeezable high-flow paint marker with an extra-wide felt or foam tip.
  9. A row of ropes dragged along the seabed for catching starfish.
  10. A drunkard.
verb
  1. To rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop.
  2. To shoplift.
noun
  1. The young of any animal.
  2. A young girl; a moppet.
  3. A made-up face; a grimace.
verb
  1. To make a wry expression with the mouth.
noun
  1. GBU-57; Acronym of Massive Ordnance Penetrator.
  2. Initialism of means of production.
  3. Initialism of mode of production.
  4. Initialism of method of payment.
  5. Initialism of muriate of potash.
noun
  1. Alternative letter-case form of MOP (“means of production”).
  2. Alternative letter-case form of MOP (“mode of production”).

Pronunciation

/mɒp/ /mɑp/ en-us-mop.ogg

Word forms

mop mops mopping mopped

Etymology

From Middle English mappe (also as mappel), perhaps borrowed from Walloon mappe (“napkin”), from Latin mappa (“napkin, cloth”). Believed to be from a Semitic source, variously claimed as Phoenician or Punic (the latter by Quintilian). Compare Modern Hebrew מַפָּה (mapá, “a map; a cloth”) (shortened from מַנְפָּה (manpah, “fluttering banner, streaming cloth”)). Doublet of map, nape, and nappe.

Synonyms

firearm gat gun iron piece

Related words

mop MOAB

Derived words

all mops and brooms dishmop mop-and-flop mopboard mop bucket mophandle mophead mop-headed mopholder moplike mop marriage moppy mop squeezer mopstick mopsy moptop mop-up mop water mopwater on the mop squeegee mop suck the mop that's the way the mop flops wet mop whiting-mop mop down moppable mopper mop the floor with someone mop up remop unmopped moppet

Translations

Catalan: ganyota French: grimace Hungarian: grimasz Hungarian: fintor Polish: grymas
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