mop
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (humorous) A dense head of hair.Examples: "He ran a comb through his mop and hurried out the door."countablehumorousuncountable
2. (British, dialect, West Midlands) An annual fair where servants were historically hired.Examples: "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."BritishWest-Midlandscountabledialectaluncountable
3. (British, obsolete) A tassel worn in a buttonhole to indicate ones occupation in such a fair.Examples: "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."Britishcountableobsoleteuncountable
4. (African-American Vernacular, MLE, slang) A firearm particularly if it has a large magazine (compare broom, but still can be related to MP)Examples: "Mainstream in this ting but I'm fully on opps Got shot with a mop but that boy never dropped"Synonyms: firearm, gat, gun, iron, pieceMulticultural-London-Englishcountableslanguncountable
5. (slang, uncountable) Fellatio.Examples: "Had his thot give me mop in the back of my Bimmer"slanguncountable
6. (graffiti) A squeezable high-flow paint marker with an extra-wide felt or foam tip.countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop.Examples: "to mop (or scrub) a floor"; "to mop one's face with a handkerchief"transitive
2. (US, slang) To shoplift.Examples: "By “mopping” (stealing) the clothes and accessories necessary to effect their look, or by buying breasts, reconstructed noses, lifted chins, and female genitals, the children turn traditional ideas of labor around: […]"USslang
noun (English)
1. (British, dialect, obsolete) The young of any animal.Britishdialectalobsolete
2. (British, dialect, obsolete) A young girl; a moppet.Britishdialectalobsolete
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To make a wry expression with the mouth.Examples: "Flibbertigibbet,[is scared of]moping and mowing, who since possesses chambermaids and waiting-women"; "There were women and children as well as men in the place, and all, ragged and half naked, mopped and mowed at the passers, or, leaping to their feet, defied them with unspeakable words and gestures."intransitive
noun (English)
1. (US, military) GBU-57; Acronym of Massive Ordnance Penetrator.Examples: "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."US
2. (economics, Marxism) Initialism of means of production.Marxismabbreviationalt-ofinitialism
3. (economics, Marxism) Initialism of mode of production.Marxismabbreviationalt-ofinitialism
4. (Internet slang) Initialism of method of payment.Examples: "Item: TWICELAND Fantasy Park Photobook (Sealed) / Price: 800 pesos only / DOP: PAYO / MOD: SCO or GGX / MOP: BPI or Gcash"Internetabbreviationalt-ofinitialism
5. (obsolete) Initialism of muriate of potash.abbreviationalt-ofinitialismobsolete
noun (English)
1. (economics, Marxism) Alternative letter-case form of MOP (“means of production”).Marxismalt-of
2. (economics, Marxism) Alternative letter-case form of MOP (“mode of production”).Marxismalt-of
Definition source: Wiktionary