sweeper

IPA: swˈipɝ

One who sweeps.
One who sweeps floors or chimneys.
A detector for mines.
Any of the small, tropical marine perciform fishes of the family Pempheridae, typically with deeply keeled, compressed bodies and large eyes.
(soccer) A defender who is the last line of defence before the goalkeeper.
(curling) A person who sweeps the ice ahead of the rock in play.
(cricket) A batsman who plays sweep shots.
(cricket) A fielding position along the boundary; a fielder in this position.
A tree that has fallen over a river with branches extending into the water.
A carpet sweeper.
(US, regional, including Ohio, Indiana and Western Pennsylvania) A vacuum cleaner.
(regional, including Cebu) A group of students tasked at cleaning the homeroom after class dismissal.
(hiking) The last person in the line of hikers that is responsible for ensuring no one gets separated from the group.
(video games) A character designed or capable of knocking out multiple enemies in succession, usually due to a combination of high offense and high speed.
(motor racing, slang) A large-radius, or high/medium speed corner in a racing circuit, named as such because of the ability of someone to trace the corner profile via "sweeping" motion of the arm.

Examples of "sweeper" in Sentences

To call a sweeper and have me led away by one of these lizard-men?
Caroline was observing with a 27-inch focal length Newtonian 'sweeper'.
I had a dream long ago about a "sweeper" who to me was such a model of domestic peace.
“Mothballed: Bomb 'sweeper' that could save our troops' lives scrapped due to lack of equipment”
We’ve gone through several vacuums in the years that we’ve had our animals and have found that the best sweeper is one that has a bag.
There is nothing about the private lives of the judges, and of the staff, down to the lowest sweeper, that is not to him incidental knowledge.
This political season the money vacuum sweeper is working as hard as ever – pulling in cash for the conventions, the candidates, and the parties from the pockets of Democratic and Republican faithful.
Here the chimney sweeper is all alone, in a snowstorm — the snow already stained with the pollution from burning coal — perhaps homeless, covered head to foot in coal-soot; indeed, to enhance the effect of the image, it appears that Blake may have used some sort of coal mixture for his water-coloring, for the only real color in the plate is a rusty coal-oil brown.