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Meaning of Mop | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1 Standard
mɒp

Definitions

  1. Alternative letter-case form of MOP (“means of production”).
    Marxism, alt-of
  2. GBU-57; Acronym of Massive Ordnance Penetrator.
    US
  3. The young of any animal.
    British, dialectal, obsolete
  4. 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.
    countable, uncountable
  5. Alternative letter-case form of MOP (“mode of production”).
    Marxism, alt-of
  6. A wash with a mop; the act of mopping.
    countable, uncountable
  7. Initialism of means of production.
    Marxism, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  8. A young girl; a moppet.
    British, dialectal, obsolete
  9. A dense head of hair.
    countable, humorous, uncountable
  10. Initialism of mode of production.
    Marxism, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  11. A made-up face; a grimace.
  12. An annual fair where servants were historically hired.
    British, West-Midlands, countable, dialectal, uncountable
  13. Initialism of method of payment.
    Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  14. A tassel worn in a buttonhole to indicate ones occupation in such a fair.
    British, countable, obsolete, uncountable
  15. Initialism of muriate of potash.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, obsolete
  16. A firearm particularly if it has a large magazine (compare broom, but still can be related to MP)
    Multicultural-London-English, countable, slang, uncountable
  17. Fellatio.
    slang, uncountable
  18. A squeezable high-flow paint marker with an extra-wide felt or foam tip.
    countable, uncountable
  19. A row of ropes dragged along the seabed for catching starfish.
    countable, uncountable
  20. A drunkard.
    countable, slang, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“He gave the floor a quick mop to soak up the spilt juice.”
“He ran a comb through his mop and hurried out the door.”
“I means to goo to th' mop, 'er sez, fur I waants a chahinge.[…]'T wuz to w:Muckley mop 'er went.”
“The Mop Fairs attracted the attention of moralists. The hiring system was seen as a means to acquire girls for prostitution; although there is no evidence that this occurred in Stratford, where girls plying for hire were generally accompanied by their formidable mothers.”
“Mop Fairs: Today's annual events are the modern version of the old hiring fairs, where people attended seeking employment or to change it. They are named after the practice of hopefully skilled employees carrying tassels, known as mops, in their buttonholes indicating their occupation. Those who had no trade carried a mop head. At the end of the following week, they could change employers or employees, at what was called the Runaway Mop.”
“Mainstream in this ting but I'm fully on opps Got shot with a mop but that boy never dropped”
“Had his thot give me mop in the back of my Bimmer”
“Left his pa's farm and is now working at the city water works. Some say he's got to drink 'cause he works with blue vitriol and that kind of stuff. He was a drunken mop always.”
“What mops and mowes it makes! --”
“Before you can say 'Come' and 'Go,' And breathe twice; and cry 'so, so,' Each one, tripping on his toe, Will be here with mop and mow.”
“The MOP — a 30,000-pound bomb with 6,000 pounds of explosives — was designed for “reaching and destroying our adversaries’ weapons of mass destruction located in well-protected facilities,” according to a fact sheet from the US Air Force.”
“Item: TWICELAND Fantasy Park Photobook (Sealed) / Price: 800 pesos only / DOP: PAYO / MOD: SCO or GGX / MOP: BPI or Gcash”

CEFR level

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