mop

An implement for washing floors or similar, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.

A wash with a mop; the act of mopping.

He gave the floor a quick mop to soak up the spilt juice.

A dense head of hair.

He ran a comb through his mop and hurried out the door.

An annual fair where servants were historically hired.

I means to goo to th' mop, 'er sez, fur I waants a chahinge.[…]'T wuz to w:Muckley mop 'er went.

The Mop Fairs attracted the attention of moralists. The hiring system was seen as a means to acquire girls for prostitution; although there is no evidence that this occurred in Stratford, where girls plying for hire were generally accompanied by their formidable mothers.

A tassel worn in a buttonhole to indicate ones occupation in such a fair.

Mop Fairs: Today's annual events are the modern version of the old hiring fairs, where people attended seeking employment or to change it. They are named after the practice of hopefully skilled employees carrying tassels, known as mops, in their buttonholes indicating their occupation. Those who had no trade carried a mop head. At the end of the following week, they could change employers or employees, at what was called the Runaway Mop.

To rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop.

to mop (or scrub) a floor

to mop one's face with a handkerchief

To shoplift.

By “mopping” (stealing) the clothes and accessories necessary to effect their look, or by buying breasts, reconstructed noses, lifted chins, and female genitals, the children turn traditional ideas of labor around: […]

The young of any animal.

A young girl; a moppet.

A made-up face; a grimace.

What mops and mowes it makes! --

Before you can say 'Come' and 'Go,' And breathe twice; and cry 'so, so,' Each one, tripping on his toe, Will be here with mop and mow.