mop up

1. 1.

   a concluding action

   Synonymscompletionculminationclosingwindup

   Broadertermination

   Narrowerconsummationfinishfinalizationfollow-throughgraduation

Questions about mop up

What does mop up mean?

mop up means "to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for mop up?

Close synonyms include wipe up, mop, worst, pip, whip. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mop up a common word?

mop up is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.