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swee per

  • n  an employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.)
  • n  a cleaning implement with revolving brushes that pick up dirt as the implement is pushed over a carpet
  • n  little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an oblong compressed body

  • Stephen Chow shuffles like a Mongkok street sweeper as he leads me through his Hong Kong offices.
  • Carpet beaters and carpet sweepers are still used where buggies exist.
  • The sweepings in a Bissell sweeper are retained hardly long enough to become, as you mention, the domicile of such vermin.
News & Articles

  • Tornado's EB30­: The Mini Sweeper Making Big Waves
    The EB30, Tornado Industries' innovative, motorized "mini-sweeper", is battery operated and loaded with features that make it extremely effective, durable, and operator friendly. This low-priced system has a 12-inch-wide footprint, comes with a removable 7.2-volt rechargeable battery that provides a full charge in about 12 hours, and has a powerful brush head that sweeps debris into an easily ...
    June 14, 2013 - ThomasNet
  • D4 soccer: Oh, Mann! Sweeper sets up state finals rematch
    The girls at Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes and Clarkston Everest Collegiate have a lot of fun at the expense of sophomore sweeper Shelby Mann. They give her the silent treatment at practice yet make her laugh during media interviews.
    June 14, 2013 - Detroit Free Press
  • Garfield enters into shared services agreement for turf sweeper
    Garfield will have access to a turf sweeper that will clean bird droppings from the city's parks and public areas as part of a shared service agreement with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
    June 12, 2013 - The Record
Quotes

  • Lawrie McMenemy in Guardian Unlimited
    In his early career he was a runner, a scrapper, a fighter, a workmanlike player,said McMenemy. "At the end of his career he became the best one-touch footballer in the game. Alan started life as a road sweeper and ended up as the best...
  • Boy George in USA Today
    I'm so glad to get this award because it means you now recognize me again as a singer and not a road sweeper,Boy George, 45, said at the awards ceremony, held at London's Grosvenor House Hotel.
  • Martin Luther King in MLive.com
    If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry,King said. "He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth...

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