mop stick

See also: mop-stick and mopstick

English

Noun

mop stick (plural mop sticks)

1. Alternative form of mopstick.
   • 1856, Arthur Hallam Elton, Tracts for the Present Crisis, Bristol: T. Kerslake, […], page 102:

     […] after all, the spectre, which so long stood in our path, was little other than our old friend of school-boy days—the ingenious but imposing amalgamation of mop sticks, fagots, fluttering white rags, and an illuminated hollow turnip.

   • 2013, Annie Rachele Lanzillotto, L Is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir, Albany, N.Y.: Excelsior Editions, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 48:

     It was time to make my own stickball bat. I took one of my mother’s old mop sticks and broke off the metal end that held the rags she used to clean the floors.

   • 2017, John Capouya, Florida Soul: From Ray Charles to KC and the Sunshine Band, Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, →ISBN:

     We all played the part of the hero and we would sing western songs and ride around on old mop sticks like horses. We would ride through the alleys until the tip of the mop stick was sharp.