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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 McNeile, H. C. (Herman Cyril)

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