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all mops and brooms

all mops and brooms adjective: intoxicated; drunk.

Adjective

all mops and brooms (not comparable)

  1. (slang) intoxicated; drunk

Questions about all mops and brooms

What does all mops and brooms mean?
All mops and brooms means intoxicated; drunk.
What part of speech is all mops and brooms?
All mops and brooms is an adjective.

Words near all mops and brooms in the dictionary

  1. all joking aside
  2. all kidding aside
  3. all kinds of
  4. all lives matter
  5. all manner of
  6. all mops and brooms
  7. all motion and no meat
  8. all mouth and no trousers
  9. all mouth and trousers
  10. all my eye
  11. all my eye and Betty Martin

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