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sweeper

[swee-per]

sweep·er

[swee-per]
noun
1.
a person or thing that sweeps.
3.
a janitor.
4.
any of several fishes of the family Pempherididae, of tropical and warm, temperate seas, having an oblong, compressed body.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English; see sweep1, -er1
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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sweeper (ˈswiːpə)
 
n
1.  a person employed to sweep, such as a roadsweeper
2.  any device for sweeping: a carpet sweeper
3.  informal soccer a player who supports the main defenders, as by intercepting loose balls, etc

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sweeper

any of the fishes of the genera Parapriaeanthus or Pempheris, in the family Pempheridae (order Perciformes), all of which occur in marine or brackish waters in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans. Sweepers have elongate-oval, compressed bodies with well-developed fins and tail. The eyes are unusually large. A few species have luminescent organs along the body. The glassy sweeper (Pempheris schomburgki) of the western Atlantic is the only representative along the North American coasts. No species occur in the eastern Atlantic.

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