mop
verb/mɒp/
/mɑːp/
Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they mop | /mɒp/ /mɑːp/ |
| he / she / it mops | /mɒps/ /mɑːps/ |
| past simple mopped | /mɒpt/ /mɑːpt/ |
| past participle mopped | /mɒpt/ /mɑːpt/ |
| -ing form mopping | /ˈmɒpɪŋ/ /ˈmɑːpɪŋ/ |
- mop something to clean something with a mop
- She wiped all the surfaces and mopped the floor.
- mop something (from something) to remove liquid from the surface of something using a cloth
- He took out a handkerchief to mop his brow (= to remove the sweat).
Word Originlate 15th cent.: perhaps ultimately related to Latin mappa ‘napkin’.
Idioms
See mop in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarywipe/mop the floor with somebody
- (informal) to defeat somebody completely in an argument or a competitionTopics Opinion and argumentc2
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