MOP (mopped, mopping)

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Irregular inflected forms: mopped    , mopping   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does mop mean? 

• MOP (noun)
  The noun MOP has 1 sense:

1. cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors

  Familiarity information: MOP used as a noun is very rare.

• MOP (verb)
  The verb MOP has 2 senses:

1. to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop

2. make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip

  Familiarity information: MOP used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

mop; swab; swob

Hypernyms ("mop" is a kind of...):

cleaning device; cleaning equipment; cleaning implement (any of a large class of implements used for cleaning)

Meronyms (parts of "mop"):

mop handle (the handle of a mop)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mop"):

dry mop; dust mop; dustmop (a dry swab for dusting floors)

sponge mop (a wet mop with a sponge as the absorbent)

Derivation:

mop (to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop)

• MOP (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they mop    ... he / she / it mops   
Past simple: mopped   
Past participle: mopped   
-ing form: mopping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

To wash or wipe with or as if with a mop

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

mop; mop up; wipe up

Context example:

He mopped her forehead with a towel

Hypernyms (to "mop" is one way to...):

absorb; draw; imbibe; soak up; sop up; suck; suck up; take in; take up (take in, also metaphorically)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "mop"):

swab; swob (wash with a swab or a mop)

sponge (soak up with a sponge)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

mop (cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors)

mopper (a worker who uses a mop to clean a surface)

mopping (cleaning with a mop)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

mop; mow; pout

Context example:

The girl pouted

Hypernyms (to "mop" is one way to...):

grimace; make a face; pull a face (contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

We were already between them and the boats; and so we four sat down to breathe, while Long John, mopping his face, came slowly up with us.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

There had been times when it was all he could do to refrain from reaching over and mopping Jim's face in the mush- plate.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; I have a small pawnbroker’s business at Coburg Square, near the City.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The man mopped his forehead with his handkerchief and gave a long sigh of relief.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It will do my brains good to have that mop taken off.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“Look at him,” said she; “his beard is like an old mop; he shall be called Grisly-beard.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He was swinging a towel in front of Harrison as he spoke, whilst Baldwin mopped him with the sponge.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At the first shot Dutchy sank upon the table, overturning his mug of coffee, his yellow mop of hair dabbling in his plate of mush.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I was not mistaken; for the mop came into the schoolroom before long, and turned out Mr. Mell and me, who lived where we could, and got on how we could, for some days, during which we were always in the way of two or three young women, who had rarely shown themselves before, and were so continually in the midst of dust that I sneezed almost as much as if Salem House had been a great snuff-box.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Poole, who had kept all the way a pace or two ahead, now pulled up in the middle of the pavement, and in spite of the biting weather, took off his hat and mopped his brow with a red pocket-handkerchief.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)