mop handle
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- noun
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mango de la fregona
- She scrubbed the floor thoroughly using the mop handle to reach the corners.
Examples
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Then she swaps her mop handle for his nice heavy nightstick.
Fiction book (1991) -
THEN I GRABBED A BROKEN MOP HANDLE AND SNAPPED IT ACROSS THE WARDEN'S BUTT.
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The level of the waste was high enough that the mop handle could reach it.
Fiction book (1990) -
Johnson pokes it with his mop handle.
Fiction book (1993) -
"Karl carries a mop handle with a U-shaped prong on the end to hold the monkey."
Fiction book (1993) -
Storm weakly, awkwardly "rows" himself toward the elevators with the mop handle.
Fiction book (1990) -
Storm jabs at the panel for the lobby button, but the shaky mop handle hits 7TH FLOOR instead.
Fiction book (1990) -
YOU KNOW YOU GOT A MOP HANDLE WEDGED UP AGAINST THE DOOR ?
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He lifted the bucket with one hand while holding the mop handle with the other.
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After cleaning, he placed the mop handle back in the storage closet.
Synonyms
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The part of an object you hold to carry or use it
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Morphology
The compound denotes the handle belonging to a mop, which is directly and compositionally derived from 'mop' (the cleaning tool) + 'handle' (the part meant to be held). This noun–noun possession/part relationship is transparent and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Mop handle comes from a simple, literal picture: a mop is the cleaning head and the handle is the long stick you hold. So mop handle means the long rod used to hold and move a mop.