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1. An employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.)
    
2. A cleaning implement with revolving brushes that pick up dirt as the implement is pushed over a carpet
   - carpet sweeper
    
3. Little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an oblong compressed body
    
4. (soccer) a defender who is the last line of defence before the goalkeeper
   - libero

Derived forms: sweepers

See also: sweep

Type of: cleaning device, cleaning equipment, cleaning implement, employe [US], employee, teleost, teleost fish, teleostan

Part of: family Pempheridae, Pempheridae

Encyclopedia: Sweeper