"sweepers" in the noun sense
1. sweeper
an employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.)
2. carpet sweeper, sweeper
a cleaning implement with revolving brushes that pick up dirt as the implement is pushed over a carpet
3. sweeper
little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an oblong compressed body
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