mop
/mɑp/ verb C2- To rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop. · to mop (or scrub) a floor· to mop one's face with a handkerchief
- To shoplift.
He/she/it mops · Past mopped · Past participle mopped · -ing form mopping
Verb forms
- Base form
- mop
- He/she/it
- mops
- Past
- mopped
- Past participle
- mopped
- -ing form
- mopping
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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.
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