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  • noun Plural form of mopper.

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Examples

  • Asos and other retailers are going after consumers that marketing pros call "moppers"-as in mobile shoppers.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • Asos and other retailers are going after consumers that marketing pros call "moppers" - as in mobile shoppers.

    SFGate: Top News Stories Sarah Shannon 2011

  • On land they are the greatest moppers-up of carbon.

    Why woodlands are wonderful Colin Tudge 2010

  • The company has sold 2 million Roomba cleaners and, since Christmas, thousands of soap-bearing Scooba moppers.

    Seven Robots Destined to Change Your Life | Impact Lab 2006

  • Cornelia pictured the chaos within, the beating of carpets, the curtainless windows, the overpowering smell of paint, the pails of dirty water, and the army of mops and moppers.

    A Wicked Gentleman Jane Feather 2007

  • Cornelia pictured the chaos within, the beating of carpets, the curtainless windows, the overpowering smell of paint, the pails of dirty water, and the army of mops and moppers.

    A Wicked Gentleman Jane Feather 2007

  • The Boskonian moppers-up are coming in force, and there isn't a chance that either we or the Arisians can derive the counter-formula of that screen in less than a week.

    Children of the Lens Smith, E. E. 1954

  • Recent lessons of the Somme Battle costing many lives had brought about the necessity for the institution of moppers up.

    The Story of the "9th King's" in France Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts

  • Following these attacking waves there came what were called "moppers up," whose task was to deal with any of the enemy who might have hidden in dugouts and so escaped the attention of the attackers.

    The Story of the "9th King's" in France Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts

  • When the barrage lifted the men entered the enemy front line and the work of the moppers-up soon began.

    The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918 John W. [Editor] Arthur

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