Sweeps

What do we mean by sweeps?

A single action of sweeping.

The person who steers a dragon boat.

A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.

A chimney sweep.

A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices).

A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.

A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.

A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.

A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs.

Violent and general destruction.

A movable templet for making moulds, in loam moulding.

In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.

The compass of any turning body or of any motion.

Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.

A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.

A rowing style in which each rower rows with oar on either the port or starboard side.

(refining) The almond furnace.

A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water.

Any of the blades of a windmill.

(in the plural) The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.

Any of several sea chub in the kyphosid subfamily Scorpidinae.

An expanse or a swath, a strip of land.

A shitty soloing technique where the only talent you need is speed. nobody gives a shit that you can play arpeggios fast. real talent would be making a selection of that arpeggio and play it in a certain order not up and down it. used in metal alot because metal is a shitty excuse for music where the only chords you need to know is D,E,F and G and be able to do sweeps. you need to musical knowledge whatsoever except the arpeggios. used in conforming metal bands or shitty metal bands unlike incredibly bands such as Tool. One could easily find technical intriguing and interesting music in basically any other genre but metal is the 2nd most conforming type of music besides pop/alternative. Urban Dictionary

The art of sweeping one under the rug after an error or bout of self-ownage. Urban Dictionary

Sweepings: The scraps, leavings, hand-me-downs, things tossed aside as the quality stuff is grabbed up at sales. Junk. Urban Dictionary

In sports (basketball and baseball, mainly) when one team wins every game in a series. Urban Dictionary

A time of the year the world of television programs where the virgins become sluts, the straits become gay, the mild-mannered become basket-cases, likeable characters turn out to be evil and/or die, couples cheat on eachother, the selfless turn selfish, someone gets pregnant, and just about any other thing that the creators can think of to boost their show's ratings enough to avoid getting cancelled by the network executives. Often as soon as sweeps week is over, all these elements are suddenly written out or forgotten. Urban Dictionary

A Style of picking, used on the guitar. You sweep your pick across the string, most of the time producing a triplet sound. Usually used to sweep arpeggios. Urban Dictionary

The act of a bird shaking it's tail feathers. Urban Dictionary

The act of sweeping multiple girls off their feet. Often times, the sweeper will be labeled as one who is very desired by the opposite sex, and sometimes even the same sex. It is common for a male sweeper to be have a hot bod, be good at guitar, be in a band, or be cute. Urban Dictionary

(n.) a raid by the police Urban Dictionary

N. ice chips and snow that accumulate on an ice-curling rink and have to be shoveled off between innings. Traditionally they are removed by the team lying two. ............................. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to sweeps:
sweeps, sweep, sweets, steeps, sweepy, weeps, seeps, sleeps, sheeps, sweers, tweeps.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word sweeps:
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Words that rhyme with sweeps:
peeps, heaps, keeps, creeps, leaps, steeps, beeps, deeps, weeps, epes, seeps, sleeps, reaps, sheeps, jeeps, neaps, cheeps, bleeps.

Adjectives that are often used to describe sweeps:
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Nouns that are often described by the adjective sweeps:
period, soil.

Consonant match to sweeps:
swipes, swaps, swoops, swops, swopes, swapes.

Words that sound like sweeps:
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