mop
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- 1A tool for cleaning floors, made of cloth or yarn fastened to a long handle.
Like a big soft brush on a stick that soaks up water from the floor.
She grabbed the mop and cleaned up the spilled juice.
He pushed the wet mop across the kitchen floor.
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- 5A wide paint pen that you squeeze to push out a thick line of ink.
Like a fat felt-tip pen that pours out lots of ink at once.
He filled the mop with blue paint before tagging the wall.
She shook the mop and drew a bold, dripping line.
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- 7A person who often drinks too much alcohol.
The old mop spent every evening at the tavern.
Don't turn into a mop at the party tonight.
Similardrunk, drunkard, lush, alcoholic
Oppositeteetotaler
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- 10Oral sex performed on a man.
She refused to give him a mop on the first date.
His crude joke was all about getting a mop.
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- 11A yearly country fair where people went to find work as servants.
Like a job fair held once a year in the town square.
Every fall the village held a mop where workers looked for jobs.
Her grandfather found his first job at the local mop.
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- 13A line of ropes pulled along the sea floor to catch starfish.
Like dragging a bunch of strings along the ground to sweep up small things.
The fishermen dropped the mop and dragged it across the seabed.
A single mop can pull up dozens of starfish at once.
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- 14A tassel worn in a buttonhole to show what job a worker did at a hiring fair.
Like a name badge that shows your job, but made of colored thread.
The shepherd pinned a mop to his coat to show his trade.
Each worker wore a bright mop in his buttonhole at the fair.
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- 15The baby or young one of any kind of animal.
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- 16A little girl or young child.
Like calling a small child 'kiddo' in a kind, friendly way.
The little mop tugged at her mother's skirt.
He told the mop a bedtime story.
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Origins
From Middle English mappe, maybe from Walloon mappe meaning "napkin," from Latin mappa ("napkin, cloth"). It may go back further to a Semitic source.
From Middle English moppe, meaning "fool" or "child, doll." Its origin is unclear.