sweeper

Meanings

Plural: sweepers

Noun

• an employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.)
• a cleaning implement with revolving brushes that pick up dirt as the implement is pushed over a carpet
• little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an oblong compressed body
• One who sweeps.
• One who sweeps floors or chimneys.
• A detector for mines.
• Any of the small, tropical marine perciform fishes of the family Pempheridae, typically with deeply keeled, compressed bodies and large eyes.
• A defender who is the last line of defence before the goalkeeper.
• A person who sweeps the ice ahead of the rock in play.
• A batsman who plays sweep shots.
• A fielding position along the boundary; a fielder in this position.
• A tree that has fallen over a river with branches extending into the water.
• A carpet sweeper.
• A vacuum cleaner.
• A group of students tasked at cleaning the homeroom after class dismissal.
• The last person in the line of hikers that is responsible for ensuring no one gets separated from the group.
• A character designed or capable of knocking out multiple enemies in succession, usually due to a combination of high offense and high speed.
• A large-radius, or high/medium speed corner in a racing circuit, named as such because of the ability of someone to trace the corner profile via "sweeping" motion of the arm.

Synonyms

carpet sweeper, libero