What is Sweep?
1.
In sports (basketball and baseball, mainly) when one team wins every game in a series.
Teams will always sweep.
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2.
When a girl brushes away a guy's hand as he tries to finger her.
Bill "So how was that chick you met at the party yesterday?"
Ted "Man things were going good, but everytime I tried to take things further I got the sweep."
Lucy "Did anything happen with you and Ted last night?"
Sally "No don't worry I swept him away everytime he tried anything."
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3.
(n.) a raid by the police
They caught him in a sweep.
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4.
The act of cruising around in notoriously bad parts of town looking for crack ho's and other prostitutes behind your girlfriend's back.
Oh man, we took a heavy sweep last night in the Tenderloin!
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(n) the amount or extent of emotional movement in a piece of art
(adj) the quality of possessing the aforementioned
*especially relevant when referring to a film
*more so when referring to an
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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6.
a technique with the guitar in which the fretting fingers are moved one at a time while the picking hand does not pick at all but strums.
"Pray for Plagues" by Bring Me The Horizon... has a sweep.
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The Cardinals losing all 4 games of the World Series, in a row, to the Red Sox.
Can you believe the Red Sox pulled off the sweep? The Cardinals are horrible!
