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upswept

[uhp-swept]

up·swept

[uhp-swept]
adjective
1.
curved or sloped upward: upswept automobile fenders.
2.
combed or brushed upward to the top of the head.

Origin:
1785–95; past participle of upsweep

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the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
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.
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up·sweep

[v. uhp-sweep; n. uhp-sweep] verb, -swept, -sweep·ing, noun
verb (used with object)
1.
to sweep upward.
verb (used without object)
2.
to be arranged in an upsweep.
noun
3.
a sweeping upward, as an increase in elevation or a steep slope.
4.
a hairdo produced by having the hair combed or brushed upward to the top of the head; an upswept hairdo.
5.
a strongly pronounced rise in activity, as in business.
6.
a curved shape of the lower jaw of some animals.

Origin:
1885–90; up- + sweep
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