mop-up
[mop-uhp]
- the act, process, or an instance of mopping up; completion of an operation or action.
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Origin of mop-up
First recorded in 1895–1900; noun use of verb phrase mop up
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completion, culmination, end, perfection, realization, wrap, payoff, cleanup, mop-up, wrap-upExamples from the Web for mop-up
Historical Examples
Golly, I want to be a Thorgunner and get in on the mop-up when it comes!
Be It Ever ThusRobert Moore Williams
And a mop-up squad patrolled outward from the reclaimed camp, picked up two living Throgs, both wandering witlessly.
Storm Over WarlockAndre Norton
A dozen times they had almost stumbled headlong into roving German mop-up patrols.
Dave Dawson at DunkirkRobert Sydney Bowen
"Congratulations on the mop-up, which I understand was one hundred point oh oh oh percent," the officer said.
Man of Many MindsE. 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 KorTerry Gene Carr