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4. Sweep
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.
1. sweep
In sports (basketball and baseball, mainly) when one team wins every game in a series.
Teams will always sweep.
2. Sweep
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."
3. sweep
(n.) a raid by the police
They caught him in a sweep.
5. sweep
(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 epic or fantasy film
The movie adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are just looks like it will have the certain sweep that made the book so touching.
6. Sweep
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!
7. Sweep
when 2 teams face each other one night after the other, or twice in a row, otherwise known as a 'series', and one team beats the other both games
The Blackhawks will probably Sweep the Penguins that series
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