Definitions for sweeps

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IPA: /swips/

Sweeps is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in sweeps (eepssw).

Definitions for sweeps

noun

1. Slang. sweep2 .
2. the act of sweeping, especially a moving, removing, clearing, etc., by or as if by the use of a broom:
3. the steady, driving motion or swift onward course of something moving with force or without interruption:
4. an examination by electronic detection devices of a room or building to determine the presence of hidden listening devices.
5. a swinging or curving movement or stroke, as of the arm, a weapon, an oar, etc.
6. reach, range, or compass, as of something sweeping about:
7. a continuous extent or stretch:
8. a curving, especially widely or gently curving, line, form, part, or mass.
9. matter removed or gathered by sweeping.
10. Also called well sweep. a leverlike device for raising or lowering a bucket in a well.
11. a large oar used in small vessels, sometimes to assist the rudder or to propel the craft.
12. an overwhelming victory in a contest.
13. a winning of all the games, rounds, hands, prizes, etc., in a contest by one contestant.
14. Football. end run.
15. one of the sails of a windmill.
16. Agriculture. any of the detachable triangular blades on a cultivator.
17. Chiefly British. a person employed to clean by sweeping, especially a chimney sweeper.
18. Cards. Whist. the winning of all the tricks in a hand. Compare slam2 (def 1). Casino. a pairing or combining, and hence taking, of all the cards on the board.
19. Physics. an irreversible process tending towards thermal equilibrium.
20. a sweepstakes.

verb (used with object)

1. to move or remove (dust, dirt, etc.) with or as if with a broom, brush, or the like.
2. to clear or clean (a floor, room, chimney, etc.) of dirt, litter, or the like, by means of a broom or brush.
3. to drive or carry by some steady force, as of a wind or wave:
4. to pass or draw (something) over a surface with a continuous stroke or movement:
5. to make (a path, opening, etc.) by clearing a space with or as if with a broom.
6. to clear (a surface, place, etc.) of something on or in it (often followed by of):
7. to pass over (a surface, region, etc.) with a steady, driving movement or unimpeded course, as winds, floods, etc.:
8. to search (an area or building) thoroughly:
9. to pass the gaze, eyes, etc., over (a region, area, etc.):
10. to direct (the eyes, gaze, etc.) over a region, surface, or the like:
11. to examine electronically, as to search for a hidden listening device.
12. to win a complete or overwhelming victory in (a contest):
13. to win (every game, round, hand, etc., of a series of contests):
14. Music. to pass the fingers or bow over (a musical instrument, its strings or keys, etc.), as in playing. to bring forth (music) thus.

verb (used without object)

1. to sweep a floor, room, etc., with or as if with a broom:
2. to move steadily and strongly or swiftly (usually followed by along, down, by, into, etc.).
3. to move or pass in a swift but stately manner:
4. to move, pass, or extend in a continuous course, especially a wide curve or circuit:
5. to conduct an underwater search by towing a drag under the surface of the water.
6. Aeronautics. (of an airfoil or its leading or trailing edge) to project from the fuselage at an angle rearward or forward of a line perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the aircraft.

Origin of sweeps

1250-1300; Middle English swepen (v.); compare Old English geswēpa sweepings, derivative of swāpan to sweep (> obsolete English swope); cognate with German schweifen

Examples for sweeps

As Rick the zombie-slayer returns, a deadly flu strain that makes your head burst like a shaken soda can sweeps across the prison.

As the mustachioed fun of No Shave November sweeps the country, its roots as a charitable effort may be getting lost.

Others of the crew had scrambled to their feet and ran to help those at the sweeps.

I could not swim a stroke, and it crossed my mind to get one of the sweeps to keep me afloat.

It appeared to have run aground, and they were trying to push it off with the sweeps.

I soon reached the beckets of the sweeps, and found four in them.

This caused the other ends to slide, and all the sweeps got away from me.

The pulses are from a beam of light produced by the intense magnetic field, which sweeps across Earth as the neutron star rotates.

Sophisticated, nuanced, melodious pop music, that sweeps you away.

Then Cathy sweeps Cannistraci literally off her feet in a bear hug.