3. (common).—A drinking bout: on the mop = on the drink.

c. 1860. Newspaper Cutting. ‘It was all along of Bill Jones the

printer, as keeps comp’ny with me,’ she muttered. ‘He’d been having

a mop, as he called it, because he was on piecework, and the

author—oh! he did go on! and call him names such as I shouldn’t

like to repeat—hadn’t sent the copy; whatever that may mean.’

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