mopper-up
Americannoun
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moppers-up
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of mopper-up
1930–35; verb phrase mop up + -er 1
Example Sentences
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He needs a safety net, a mopper-up of perilous trifles.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 24, 2013
Once more they were advancing again over the other side of the trench: the moppers-up would attend to the piscatorial gentleman.
From No Man's Land by H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile
The function of moppers-up is to collect souvenirs for the new Great War Museum, to be housed in one of the four remaining London hotels.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 19, 1917 by Various
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