broom
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (countable) A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.Examples: "Meronyms: broomstick (handle), bavin (head)"countable
2. (countable, curling) An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a sweeper.countable
3. (slang, rare) A firearm; especially, a shotgun.Examples: "So keep talking all that fly shit, and I’ma grab the tool And the lead will get stuck in your head like a catchy tune Soon as I look down on a target, bitch, your ass is doomed Trust exercise with Ahdi, arms out to catch a boom You see this sweeper I got, it ain’t your average broom This ring will wet this bitch like a happy groom"; "I just got the drop, there is an opp OFB step with the broom"; "He got forced to hold that broom, that dickhead reminds me of Cinderella"Synonyms: broomstick, boomstick, firearm, gat, gun, iron, piececountablerareslanguncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive, intransitive) To sweep with a broom.Examples: "[…] Sidi, I was busy in the exercise of my functions, occupied in brooming the front of the stables, when who should come but Hhamed Ould Denéï on horseback, at full gallop, as if he were going to break his neck. […]"; "It was but this morning at eight, when poor Molly, was brooming the steps, and the baker paying her by no means unmerited compliments, that my landlady came whirling out of the ground-floor front, and sent the poor girl whimpering into the kitchen."; "After that I did take the broom from its place, and I gave the floor a good brooming. I broomed the boards up and down and cross-ways. There was not a speck of dirt on them left."intransitivetransitive
2. (roofing) To improve the embedding of a membrane by using a broom or squeegee to smooth it out and ensure contact with the adhesive under the membrane.
3. (figurative) To get rid of someone, like firing an employee or breaking up with a girlfriend, to sweep another out of one's life.Examples: "April 2002 Willem Dafoe as Norman Osborn, speaking to his son Harry, in the film "Spider-Man" A word to the "not-so-wise" about your girlfriend. Do what you need to with her, then broom her fast."; "let the employee leave on his own, or the boss must broom him. If you hire, or inherit, able people, and you groom them, you won't have to broom them. Groom, broom, and watch your company zoom."; "I still was going to go with Breslin until one day he said to me, "I got a confession to make to you. When my mother died on her deathbed I promised her I'd never drive a car and I still don't know how to drive a car." I figured for this picture you have to drive a car, so I just decided to broom him and go with an actor."figuratively
verb (English)
1. (nautical) Alternative form of bream (“to clean a ship's bottom”).alt-ofalternative
Definition source: Wiktionary