mop squeezer

noun

A maidservant.

Meanings

nounmop squeezer (plural mop squeezers)

plural mop squeezers · alternative mop-squeezer

  1. 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
  2. offensivepossiblyslanguncommonA queen (the playing card).

Synonyms & antonyms

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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).

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APA

mop squeezer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mop%20squeezer

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“mop squeezer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mop%20squeezer. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mop squeezer,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mop%20squeezer.

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