mop

6 definitions • 5 examples

a stick with soft material attached to one end, especially used for washing floors:

a floor mop

a dish mop

to use a mop to wash something:

He mopped the bathroom floor.

to use a cloth to remove sweat from the face:

He kept pausing to mop his brow.

a stick having at one end a mass of thick, cloth strings or a sponge (= soft substance) that you slide along a floor to spread or absorb a liquid in cleaning the floor

A mop of hair is a lot of hair in a thick mass:

The child’s face was framed by a mop of brown curls.

If you mop the sweat (= liquid produced because you are hot) from your face, you use your hand or a piece of cloth to remove it.