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mop-top

mop-top is the alternative spelling of moptop.

Meaning of moptop

Noun

moptop (plural moptops)

  1. (dated) Synonym of Beatle cut.
    • While young women loved the Beatles' hair, British adults found it “unsightly, unsafe, unruly, and unclean.” Factories suspended young apprentices who dared to show up in a moptop.2022, W. David Marx, “Introduction”, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN

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Forms of mop-top

pluralmop-tops

Questions about mop-top

What is mop-top the alternative spelling of?
Mop-top is the alternative spelling of moptop.

Words near mop-top in the dictionary

  1. mop water
  2. mop-and-flop
  3. mop-headed
  4. mop-stick
  5. mop-sticks
  6. mop-top
  7. mop-topped
  8. mop-tops
  9. mop-up
  10. mop-ups
  11. MOPAC

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mop-top (page history and authors); moptop (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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