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Grammar : Noun
Spell : mop-uhp
Phonetic Transcription : ˈmɒpˌʌp



Definition of mop-up

  • As in consummation : noun achievement, fulfillment
Example sentences :
  • Golly, I want to be a Thorgunner and get in on the mop-up when it comes!
  • Extract from : « Be It Ever Thus » by Robert Moore Williams
  • And a mop-up squad patrolled outward from the reclaimed camp, picked up two living Throgs, both wandering witlessly.
  • Extract from : « Storm Over Warlock » by Andre Norton
  • A dozen times they had almost stumbled headlong into roving German mop-up patrols.
  • Extract from : « Dave Dawson at Dunkirk » by Robert Sydney Bowen
  • "Congratulations on the mop-up, which I understand was one hundred point oh oh oh percent," the officer said.
  • Extract from : « Man of Many Minds » by E. Everett Evans
  • Those were mop-up operations, clearing the streets of the last of the priest-king forces; he was not needed there.
  • Extract from : « Warlord of Kor » by Terry Gene Carr

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