mopped
mopped is the simple past and past participle of mop.
Meaning of mop
Verb (1)
mop (third-person singular simple present mops, present participle mopping, simple past and past participle mopped)
- To rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop.
- to mop (or scrub) a floor
- To shoplift.
- By “mopping” (stealing) the clothes and accessories necessary to effect their look, or by buying breasts, reconstructed noses, lifted chins, and female genitals, the children turn traditional ideas of labor around: […]2013, Martha Gever, Pratibha Parmar, John Greyson, Queer Looks, page 111
Verb (2)
mop (third-person singular simple present mops, present participle mopping, simple past and past participle mopped)
- To make a wry expression with the mouth.
- Flibbertigibbet, [is scared of] moping and mowing, who since possesses chambermaids and waiting-womenc. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
Adjective
mopped (not comparable)
- Haired.
- There was more in the same vein before an anti-climactic conclusion: “This horror is obviously a satire of today’s long-mopped singing groups, but it has failed. It is in a class by itself – if it can be classified.”1997, Neil Slaven, Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story Of Frank Zappa, London: Omnibus Press, published 2009, →ISBN
- So when JD Emmenthaler lit from Dallas with ginger hair, black boots, tan Stetson, and wads of long green money, no one on either side of the village took much notice of him, his blonde-mopped wife Narcissa with her red Corvette she sashayed all over La Mancha in, or his small son Travis, except to...2002, Dorothy Cave, chapter 11, in Song on a Blue Guitar, Santa Fe, N.M.: Sunstone Press, →ISBN, page 93
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Words that rhyme with mopped
Questions about mopped
- What does mopped mean?
- Mopped means haired.
- What is mopped the simple past and past participle of?
- Mopped is the simple past and past participle of mop.
- What part of speech is mopped?
- Mopped is an adjective.
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