broomstick
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- noun
- /ˈbrumˌstɪk/
:
mango de escoba
- She grabbed the broomstick and began sweeping the porch clean.
- broomstick handle
- wooden broomstick
- an old broomstick
When Keith swings the broomstick and hits me in the stomach.
- When Keith swings the broomstick and hits me in the stomach.
- And then like the finale one time he, she was hitting him in the head with a broomstick, right, right, like right, to break it across his head.
- But usually it's like really cool stuff like they're doing flips and stuff or like sad stuff Atlas being hit with a broomstick or something like that.
Examples
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Go to the kitchen, get some broomsticks.
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He had a broomstick.
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Where are you going to put your broomstick collection?
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Or will they give you the broomstick first?
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This is where the broomstick should be.
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One of the deputies put his hand on the broomstick.
Fiction book (1991) -
"You can put your broomsticks in the corner," Cinderella said.
Fiction book (1991) -
Who stole my broomstick?
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And a weather-beaten broomstick.
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Now, the struts in the trunk are bad, so fortunately we have this handy broomstick that we can use to prop up the trunk.
Synonyms
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A long stick used to hold and move a broom
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word broomstick is simply broom + stick, meaning a 'stick for a broom'. Long ago, the word broom named a bush whose branches were used as the brush, so the broomstick became the long wooden handle that holds the brush.