MOPPING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mopping mean? 

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

1. cleaning with a mop

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOPPING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cleaning with a mop

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

mopping; swabbing

Context example:

he gave it a good mopping

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

scouring; scrub; scrubbing (the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water)

Derivation:

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

 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)

Once released, the PAR starts mopping up calcium into larger droplets which stick onto the components in artery walls that give the artery its elasticity, where they form ordered crystals and solidify, hardening the arteries.

(Cause of hardening of the arteries – and potential treatment – identified, University of Cambridge)