1 definition by Cameron O. Dunlap

-verb: The act of grasping your cell phone firmly in one of your hands, extending your arm, and moving your arm across an area in a right to left motion(or vice versa)in an attempt to find signal in places with little or no reception.
1. I began signal sweeping in my friends basement until I had enough bars to send the text message.

2. Michael frantically began signal sweeping to find reception so he could call back his girl friend.
by Cameron O. Dunlap March 11, 2009
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