" sweep "

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1: In sports (basketball and baseball, mainly) when one team wins every game in a series.

  * e.g.,  ... Teams will always sweep. 

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1: (n.) a raid by the police

  * e.g.,  ... They caught him in a sweep. 

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1: (n) the amount or extent of emotional movement in a piece of art

  * e.g.,  ... The movie adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are just looks like it will have the certain sweep that made the book so touching. 

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2: (adj) the quality of possessing the aforementioned *especially relevant when referring to a film

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3: *more so when referring to an epic or fantasy film

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1: The Cardinals losing all 4 games of the World Series, in a row, to the Red Sox.

  * e.g.,  ... Can you believe the Red Sox pulled off the sweep? The Cardinals are horrible! 

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1: the female in a relationship

  * e.g.,  ... I going out for a yam with the sweep tonight 

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1: The art of sweeping one under the rug after an error or bout of self-ownage.

  * e.g.,  ... Boy 1 - "Haha, what an idiot. You spelt that word wrong, you are so dumm" 

 [ "sweepings" ]

1: Sweepings: The scraps, leavings, hand-me-downs, things tossed aside as the quality stuff is grabbed up at sales. Junk.

  * e.g.,  ... Allie and her friend Brenda waited all night to get into the store with the Grand Opening mega-sale. As they were scrunched through the door the mob rushed right through them and by the time they could get the clothes they dreamed of - all that was left were torn & dirty things that were either way too small or large enough to use as a tent. Scraps and pieces of clothing littered the floors, trampled and raggedly filthy junk. Well Bren, looks like were stuck with the sweepings. 

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1: A time of the year the world of television programs where the virgins become sluts, the straits become gay, the mild-mannered become basket-cases, likeable characters turn out to be evil and/or die, couples cheat on eachother, the selfless turn selfish, someone gets pregnant, and just about any other thing that the creators can think of to boost their show's ratings enough to avoid getting cancelled by the network executives.

  * e.g.,  ... FOX is the best network to catch sweeps week stunts due to their tendancy to cancel on a whim. 

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2: Often as soon as sweeps week is over, all these elements are suddenly written out or forgotten.

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1: A Style of picking, used on the guitar. You sweep your pick across the string, most of the time producing a triplet sound.

  * e.g.,  ... "Wow Yngwie sweeps like a mutha fucker." 

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2: Usually used to sweep arpeggios.

  * e.g.,  ... "You really suck at sweeps" 

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1: The act of a bird shaking it's tail feathers.

  * e.g.,  ... "That cockatiel just did a good sweep!" "Aw, my bird did a sweep."