Meanings
plural mop squeezers · alternative mop-squeezer
- archaicslangA maidservant.
Servant Maids – who despising their Station […] deserted their Calling, and from Mop-squeezers, were promoted to Whores.
c. 1758, Epistle of a Reformed Rake, page 23; quoted in Jonathon Green, “mop n.¹”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, 2024 - offensivepossiblyslanguncommonA queen (the playing card).
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
Sense 2 attested from 1949 in the US. Sense 2 possibly a reference to the scepter held by some queens (e.g., the queen of spades in the English deck).
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
mop squeezer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mop%20squeezer
“mop squeezer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mop%20squeezer. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mop squeezer,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mop%20squeezer.
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