sweeper (n.)

  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

    [ Syn: carpet sweeper ]

  3. little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an oblong compressed body

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