Mop
noun
A tool with a handle and long, soft fabric or yarn at the end, used for cleaning floors.
I use a mop to clean the kitchen floor.
Often appears as...
- mop the floor
- mop up spills
verb
To clean or soak up liquid with a mop.
She mopped the floor after dinner.
Often appears as...
- mop the floor
- mop up the mess
verb
To show an unhappy face or be unhappy.
He has been moping around since he lost his job.
Often appears as...
- mop around
- mop about
Usage tips
Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
A tool with a handle and long, soft fabric or yarn at the end, used for cleaning floors.
I use a mop to clean the kitchen floor.
Often appears as...
- mop the floor
- mop up spills
verb
To clean or soak up liquid with a mop.
She mopped the floor after dinner.
Often appears as...
- mop the floor
- mop up the mess
verb
To show an unhappy face or be unhappy.
He has been moping around since he lost his job.
Often appears as...
- mop around
- mop about
Usage tips
Disapproving
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Cleaning Tool
Think of a mop as a special broom for wet cleaning, not sweeping.
After spilling juice, I grabbed the mop.
Pro Tip 2/3Floor Specific
Mops are mostly used for floors, unlike sponges for counters.
Let’s mop up this sticky mess on the floor.
Pro Tip 3/3Wet Usage
Mops require water or cleaning fluid to be effective.
I need to wet the mop before cleaning.
Pro Tip 1/3Cleaning Tool
Think of a mop as a special broom for wet cleaning, not sweeping.
After spilling juice, I grabbed the mop.
Pro Tip 2/3Floor Specific
Mops are mostly used for floors, unlike sponges for counters.
Let’s mop up this sticky mess on the floor.
Pro Tip 3/3Wet Usage
Mops require water or cleaning fluid to be effective.
I need to wet the mop before cleaning.
Pro Tip 1/3Cleaning Tool
Think of a mop as a special broom for wet cleaning, not sweeping.
After spilling juice, I grabbed the mop.
Pro Tip 2/3Floor Specific
Mops are mostly used for floors, unlike sponges for counters.
Let’s mop up this sticky mess on the floor.
Pro Tip 3/3Wet Usage
Mops require water or cleaning fluid to be effective.
I need to wet the mop before cleaning.
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Dean Ornish: Healing...
Your body has a remarkable capacity to begin healing itself, and much more quickly than people had once realized, if you simply stop doing what's causing the problem. And so, really, so much of what we do in medicine and life in general is focused on mopping up the floor without also turning off the faucet. I love doing this work,
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How to escape...
From an economic point of view, this is good math, isn't it, that we should do this? It actually costs an enormous amount to mop up the damage from the dropout crisis. But the dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school
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Our loss of wisdom -...
mentored by wise teachers when you ask the janitors who behave like the ones I described how hard it is to learn to do their jobs they tell you that it takes lots of experience and they don't mean it takes lots of experience to learn how to mop floors and empty trash cans it
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Zoologist spots Three...
they are also surprisingly comfortable with the insects in their fur sloths actually have a special relationship with a moth called the sloth mop and you can see him crawling all over her right now and these moths spend their entire life on the back of the
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Dave Eggers: 2008 TED...
While you're reading the sign, we pull a rope behind the counter and eight mop heads drop on your head. That was just my one thing -- I said we had to have something that drops on people's heads. It became mop heads. And this is the fish theater,
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Fossil fuel companies...
To stop further global warming, permanent storage has to mean tens of thousands of years at least, which is why trying to mop up our fossil carbon emissions by planting trees can help, but it can only be a temporary stopgap.
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I got 99 problems......
So, if my three older sisters were mopping, I was mopping. If my three older sisters went to public school, my parents would sue the school system and guarantee that I went too, and if we didn't all get A's,
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Danny Hillis:...
that helps. Whereas living room water, it's better to do tar on the roof." And it sounds silly, but that's basically what we do. And I'm not saying you shouldn't mop up your water if you have cancer,
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Young Falcons Learn to...
the wolves are mopping up birds especially any that are slow to take off the young falcon is exposed and vulnerable
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Refugee Finds a Future...
so you said that this is one of your most important photographs why oh why does this move you this picture is mops
Video examples
Dean Ornish: Healing...
Your body has a remarkable capacity to begin healing itself, and much more quickly than people had once realized, if you simply stop doing what's causing the problem. And so, really, so much of what we do in medicine and life in general is focused on mopping up the floor without also turning off the faucet. I love doing this work,
Video examples
How to escape...
From an economic point of view, this is good math, isn't it, that we should do this? It actually costs an enormous amount to mop up the damage from the dropout crisis. But the dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school
Video examples
Our loss of wisdom -...
mentored by wise teachers when you ask the janitors who behave like the ones I described how hard it is to learn to do their jobs they tell you that it takes lots of experience and they don't mean it takes lots of experience to learn how to mop floors and empty trash cans it
Video examples
Zoologist spots Three...
they are also surprisingly comfortable with the insects in their fur sloths actually have a special relationship with a moth called the sloth mop and you can see him crawling all over her right now and these moths spend their entire life on the back of the
Video examples
Dave Eggers: 2008 TED...
While you're reading the sign, we pull a rope behind the counter and eight mop heads drop on your head. That was just my one thing -- I said we had to have something that drops on people's heads. It became mop heads. And this is the fish theater,
Video examples
Fossil fuel companies...
To stop further global warming, permanent storage has to mean tens of thousands of years at least, which is why trying to mop up our fossil carbon emissions by planting trees can help, but it can only be a temporary stopgap.
Video examples
I got 99 problems......
So, if my three older sisters were mopping, I was mopping. If my three older sisters went to public school, my parents would sue the school system and guarantee that I went too, and if we didn't all get A's,
Video examples
Danny Hillis:...
that helps. Whereas living room water, it's better to do tar on the roof." And it sounds silly, but that's basically what we do. And I'm not saying you shouldn't mop up your water if you have cancer,
Video examples
Young Falcons Learn to...
the wolves are mopping up birds especially any that are slow to take off the young falcon is exposed and vulnerable
Video examples
Refugee Finds a Future...
so you said that this is one of your most important photographs why oh why does this move you this picture is mops
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Emo Philips
American Comedian
I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, 'I'm going to mop the floor with your face.' I said, 'You'll be sorry.' He said, 'Oh, yeah? Why?' I said, 'Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well.
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Bronte Campbell
Australian Athlete
I'm actually really good at vacuuming, and I don't even mind it so much. I hate dusting with a passion, and I am not a fan of tidying up, but vacuuming I can do. And mopping floors: I'm not bad at that, either.
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Khalil Mack
American Athlete
When you do something, do it right the first time... When you're talking about hard-working, when you go out of your way to mop floors and strip them and do all those things, it's kind of like, 'Dang.
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Theaster Gates
American Artist
My first experience with the creative was mopping tar. If you let the tar sit, it can get cold pretty quickly. And because the mops are so heavy, you've got to dip it and then ride it really fast.
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Jose Feliciano
Puerto Rican Musician
I thought I'd be spending my life making brooms, mops, chairs and things. That's fine for some blind people, but I wanted something more out of life. Music seemed the best way.
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Jill Lepore
American Historian
When I was a kid, my father would go to our school in the summer to sweep, mop, and wax the floors, room by room, hall by hall, week after week.
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Joy Mangano
American Inventor
I was just was tired of bending down, putting my hands in dirty water, ringing out a mop. So, I said, 'There's gotta be a better way.
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Julian Castro
American Politician
And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone.
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Saoirse Ronan
Irish Actress
I love cleaning. I love mopping the floor. If you need your floor mopped, I'm there.
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Jerry Hall
American Model
You can burn a lot of calories mopping the house.
Quote examples
Emo Philips
American Comedian
I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, 'I'm going to mop the floor with your face.' I said, 'You'll be sorry.' He said, 'Oh, yeah? Why?' I said, 'Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well.
Quote examples
Bronte Campbell
Australian Athlete
I'm actually really good at vacuuming, and I don't even mind it so much. I hate dusting with a passion, and I am not a fan of tidying up, but vacuuming I can do. And mopping floors: I'm not bad at that, either.
Quote examples
Khalil Mack
American Athlete
When you do something, do it right the first time... When you're talking about hard-working, when you go out of your way to mop floors and strip them and do all those things, it's kind of like, 'Dang.
Quote examples
Theaster Gates
American Artist
My first experience with the creative was mopping tar. If you let the tar sit, it can get cold pretty quickly. And because the mops are so heavy, you've got to dip it and then ride it really fast.
Quote examples
Jose Feliciano
Puerto Rican Musician
I thought I'd be spending my life making brooms, mops, chairs and things. That's fine for some blind people, but I wanted something more out of life. Music seemed the best way.
Quote examples
Jill Lepore
American Historian
When I was a kid, my father would go to our school in the summer to sweep, mop, and wax the floors, room by room, hall by hall, week after week.
Quote examples
Joy Mangano
American Inventor
I was just was tired of bending down, putting my hands in dirty water, ringing out a mop. So, I said, 'There's gotta be a better way.
Quote examples
Julian Castro
American Politician
And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone.
Quote examples
Saoirse Ronan
Irish Actress
I love cleaning. I love mopping the floor. If you need your floor mopped, I'm there.
Quote examples
Jerry Hall
American Model
You can burn a lot of calories mopping the house.
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