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mop-up

mop-up noun: an instance of mopping up; a cleaning or finishing off.

Noun

mop-up (countable and uncountable, plural mop-ups)

  1. (attributive, informal, often) An instance of mopping up; a cleaning or finishing off.
    • We need a mop-up on aisle 3. [store intercom announcement]
    • Another armored division was called in for the mop-up operation.
  2. The cleanup of an area by removing burning material, felling dead trees, securing logs from moving, etc.

mop-up meaning in Tamil

mop-up in Tamil

இறுதி கட்டம், இறுதிச் செயல்பாடு, உறிஞ்சுதல், மிகவும் விரும்புதல், அடக்குதல், வெளியேற்றுதல்

Forms of mop-up

pluralmop-ups

Origin of mop-up

Deverbal from mop up.

Questions about mop-up

What does mop-up mean?
Mop-up means an instance of mopping up; a cleaning or finishing off.
What is mop-up in Tamil?
Mop-up in Tamil is இறுதி கட்டம், இறுதிச் செயல்பாடு, உறிஞ்சுதல். See Mop-up meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is mop-up?
Mop-up is a noun.
What is the plural of mop-up?
The plural of mop-up is mop-ups.

Words near mop-up in the dictionary

  1. mop-stick
  2. mop-sticks
  3. mop-top
  4. mop-topped
  5. mop-tops
  6. mop-up
  7. mop-ups
  8. MOPAC
  9. mopaliid
  10. mopaliids
  11. Mopan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mop-up (page history and authors); mop-up (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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