transcription, транскрипция: [ mɒp ]
( mops, mopping, mopped)
1.
A mop is a piece of equipment for washing floors. It consists of a sponge or many pieces of string attached to a long handle.
N-COUNT
2.
If you mop a surface such as a floor, you clean it with a mop.
There was a woman mopping the stairs.
VERB : V n
3.
If you mop sweat from your forehead or mop your forehead, you wipe it with a piece of cloth.
He mopped perspiration from his forehead...
The Inspector took out a handkerchief and mopped his brow.
= wipe
VERB : V n from n , V n
4.
If someone has a mop of hair, they have a lot of hair and it looks rather untidy.
He was long-limbed and dark-eyed, with a mop of tight, dark curls.
N-COUNT : usu N of n