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mop

/mɑp/ noun A2
  1. An implement for washing floors or similar, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle. (countable, uncountable)
  2. A wash with a mop; the act of mopping. (countable, uncountable) · He gave the floor a quick mop to soak up the spilt juice.
  3. A dense head of hair. (countable, uncountable) · He ran a comb through his mop and hurried out the door.
  4. A firearm particularly if it has a large magazine (compare broom, but still can be related to MP) (countable, slang, uncountable)
  5. Fellatio. (slang, uncountable)
  6. A squeezable high-flow paint marker with an extra-wide felt or foam tip. (countable, uncountable)
  7. A row of ropes dragged along the seabed for catching starfish. (countable, uncountable)
  8. A drunkard. (countable, slang, uncountable)

Plural mops

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From the library

When young Rockwall entered the library the old man laid aside his newspaper, looked at him with a kindly grimness on his big, smooth, ruddy countenance, rumpled his mop of white hair with one hand and rattled the keys in his pocket with the other.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 8 · C1

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