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mop-up definition

mop·-up (mäp′up′)

noun

a clearing out or rounding up of scattered remnants of beaten enemy forces in an area

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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