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Broom
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- 1 Alternative form of brrm (“sound of a car engine”) (often used reduplicatively) alt-of, alternative
"I'm in me mum's car, broom broom"
- 1 A number of places in England:; A village in Southill parish, Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire (OS grid ref TL1743).
- 2 A number of places in England:; A hamlet in Long Marton parish, Eden district, Cumbria (OS grid ref NY6623).
- 3 A number of places in England:; A locality in Thorncombe parish, west Dorset, on the boundary with Devon and close to Somerset (OS grid ref ST3202).
- 4 A number of places in England:; A southern suburb of Rotherham, South Yorkshire (OS grid ref SK4491).
- 5 A number of places in England:; A village in Bidford-on-Avon parish, Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire (OS grid ref SP0853).
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- 6 A suburb of Newton Mearns, East Renfrewshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS5556).
- 7 A hamlet in Kilgetty/Begelly community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN1108).
- 8 A surname.
- 1 A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping. countable
"Meronyms: broomstick (handle), bavin (head)"
- 2 a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle wordnet
- 3 An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a sweeper. countable
- 4 common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere wordnet
- 5 Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, with long, stiff, thin branches and small or few leaves used for the domestic utensil. countable, uncountable
"At the same time, the encroachment of vegetation proceeds apace, and broom and brambles have already made portions of the line impassable, even on foot."
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- 6 any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers wordnet
- 7 Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, with long, stiff, thin branches and small or few leaves used for the domestic utensil.; Especially, of the tribe Genisteae, including genera Cytisus, Genista, and Spartium. countable, uncountable
"[…] and thy broom groves, Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves, Being lass-lorn […]"
- 8 Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, with long, stiff, thin branches and small or few leaves used for the domestic utensil.; Of plants not closely related to those of tribe Genisteae. countable, uncountable
- 9 A firearm; especially, a shotgun. countable, rare, slang, uncountable
"So keep talking all that fly shit, and I’ma grab the tool And the lead will get stuck in your head like a catchy tune Soon as I look down on a target, bitch, your ass is doomed Trust exercise with Ahdi, arms out to catch a boom You see this sweeper I got, it ain’t your average broom This ring will wet this bitch like a happy groom"
- 1 To sweep with a broom. intransitive, transitive
"[…] Sidi, I was busy in the exercise of my functions, occupied in brooming the front of the stables, when who should come but Hhamed Ould Denéï on horseback, at full gallop, as if he were going to break his neck. […]"
- 2 Alternative form of bream (“to clean a ship's bottom”). alt-of, alternative
- 3 finish with a broom wordnet
- 4 To improve the embedding of a membrane by using a broom or squeegee to smooth it out and ensure contact with the adhesive under the membrane.
- 5 sweep with a broom or as if with a broom wordnet
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- 6 To get rid of someone, like firing an employee or breaking up with a girlfriend, to sweep another out of one's life. figuratively
"April 2002 Willem Dafoe as Norman Osborn, speaking to his son Harry, in the film "Spider-Man" A word to the "not-so-wise" about your girlfriend. Do what you need to with her, then broom her fast."
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English brom, from Old English brōm (“brushwood”), from Proto-West Germanic *brām (“bramble”) (compare Saterland Frisian Brom, West Frisian brem, Dutch braam, German Low German Braam), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrem-, from *bʰer- ‘edge’. Related to brim, brink. Replaced English besom (from Old English besma (“broom, rod”)), which is now restricted in meaning to a particular kind of broom. (shotgun): So called because it is (like the cleaning utensil) long and held similarly to a besom and “cleans” what is in front.
Inherited from Middle English brom, from Old English brōm (“brushwood”), from Proto-West Germanic *brām (“bramble”) (compare Saterland Frisian Brom, West Frisian brem, Dutch braam, German Low German Braam), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrem-, from *bʰer- ‘edge’. Related to brim, brink. Replaced English besom (from Old English besma (“broom, rod”)), which is now restricted in meaning to a particular kind of broom. (shotgun): So called because it is (like the cleaning utensil) long and held similarly to a besom and “cleans” what is in front.
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