broom
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1.0
- noun
- /bruːm/
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escoba
- Without the use of the broom, we might be forced to accommodate rubbish and contract illness and disease.
- sweep with a broom
- use a broom
- a broom handle
I just, I was always like, did nobody mention like, brooms, mops, vacuums?
- I just, I was always like, did nobody mention like, brooms, mops, vacuums?
- It was like a riff raff Knick knack flea market on your screen and then notice below you would have like a broom and a Candlestick.
- Now all of Bex's camping equipment is there in the backyard in the shed and also my broom, which is nice and all of her gardening equipment as well.
- Oxo is a nice brand for a for a broom so far, with the exception of the Nespresso machine and maybe the TV.
- I mean, she beat her son with a broom even though he deserved it.
- So it's an L motion and it cleans the broom.
- Now the bad things will try to pop in and I just like big broom, sweep them out.
- I'm like, give me some of this good broom, broom.
- My brother, you you recently fought someone off with a broom.
- History came as Yale dining hall worker Cory Menifee LED with a broom.
Examples
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The Old Man puts down his broom and ambles to the register.
Fiction book (1993) -
My mother tries to sweep them away with a broom, but now there are too many.
Fiction book (1990) -
I dropped the broom and just ran out.
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We need a new broom.
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I need to borrow your broom handle.
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And bring your brooms, because it's a mess.
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Pick up that broom, or you're out of here.
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And I remember grabbing that broom, picking it up, and I started sweeping.
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With one sweep of the broom, she raked all the matches out into the yard.
Fiction book (1991) -
She used the broom to sweep the kitchen floor clean.
Synonyms
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4.2
A small brush with a short handle for removing dust or lint from clothes
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3.2
A wide cleaning tool with a long handle that you push to sweep floors
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4.9
A small hand brush with a short handle for cleaning clothes and small areas
A simple broom made from dried stalks that people use to sweep floors or outdoor areas
A large broom for sweeping streets and other outdoor areas
Idioms
- Informal
To tell other people that you practice witchcraft or Pagan beliefs after keeping it secret
Compounds
- US
An annual plant found in the dry American southwest with stiff woody branches, sticky leaves, and yellow flowers
A tough grass from North America with leaves that turn pale bronze in autumn
- US
A small palm tree from southern Florida and the West Indies that looks like the silvertop palmetto
- US
A tall grass that grows in many clumps in old fields in the southeastern United States
A low sticky bush with narrow leaves, many thin branches, and many tiny yellow flowers
- Specialized
A spreading evergreen shrub with small clusters of white flowers that grows in dry places
- UK
A small shrub with yellow flower clusters used to make dye and sometimes grown in gardens
The act of leaving out difficult or inconvenient facts on purpose to make something seem simpler
- UK
A shrub with slender green branches and bright yellow flowers often grown in gardens
A tall thornless shrub from the Mediterranean with sweet-smelling yellow flowers and flexible stems used to make baskets
- New Zealand
A small plant with drooping branches and purple to white flowers from New Zealand
- Specialized
A dense cluster of small branches on a tree caused by disease or insects
How Wide
Surface Forms
Etymology
Broom for the cleaning tool comes from the shrub of the same name: people tied the shrub's twigs to a handle to make a brush. So a broom is literally a bundle of branches used for 'sweeping', which is why we still call the tool a broom today.