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sweepers

sweepers is the plural of sweeper.

Meaning of sweeper

Noun

sweeper (plural sweepers)

  1. One who sweeps; one whose occupation is sweeping.
    • ‘I was [...] the sweeper of the seaboat. I had the job for two years. I know all about keeping boats tiddley.’1960, J. E. Macdonnell, Don't Gimme the Ships, Melbourne: Horwitz Publications, page 97
  2. One who sweeps floors or chimneys.
  3. A detector for mines.
  4. Any of the small, tropical marine perciform fishes of the family Pempheridae, typically with deeply keeled, compressed bodies and large eyes.
  5. A defender who is the last line of defence before the goalkeeper.
    Synonyms:
    libero
  6. A person who sweeps the ice ahead of the rock in play.

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Phrases with sweepers

Questions about sweepers

What is sweepers the plural of?
Sweepers is the plural of sweeper.

Words near sweepers in the dictionary

  1. sweeped
  2. sweeper
  3. sweeper-keeper
  4. sweeperess
  5. sweeperesses
  6. sweepers
  7. sweepest
  8. sweepeth
  9. sweepin'
  10. sweeping
  11. sweeping along

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