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mopping-up
[ mop-ing-uhp ]
adjective
- serving to complete or put the finishing touches to a phase of a particular action.
- serving to complete a military campaign by killing or capturing any remaining enemy troops:
a mopping-up operation.
Word History and Origins
Origin of mopping-up1
Example Sentences
There was some mopping up to do, particularly to convince waverers in the Jewish community.
You go to the source, there is no point mopping up until you have fixed the actual leak.
President Obama could start mopping up this hot mess by causing some heads to roll in his Chicago campaign headquarters.
Typical Post-y puns decried how custodians were “mopping up” and “cleaning us out.”
The advertising department had been closed, and on the floor above, scrub women were busy mopping up.
Then he saw the helper busily mopping up the reeking mass of chemicals.
The world is small, as you say, but just at this moment infernally busy mopping up.
"Then we'd better be shackin' erlong," said Mormon, mopping up gravy with half a biscuit.
On arrival there, the "mopping up" party is found still at work, but it soon completes its grim task.
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