mop-up

[mop-uhp]

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noun

the act, process, or an instance of mopping up; completion of an operation or action.

Origin of mop-up

First recorded in 1895–1900; noun use of verb phrase mop up

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Related Words for mop-up

completion, culmination, end, perfection, realization, wrap, payoff, cleanup, mop-up, wrap-up

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Historical Examples of mop-up

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