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street sweeper

US/ˈstɹit ˌswipɚ/
nounB1Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

A street sweeper is the worker or machine that cleans the roads. Follow the street sweeper.

The machine sprays water first, since sweeping a dry street just moves the dust into the air. A street sweeper works early because a parked car is an obstacle it cannot go round.

Fibonacci Blue from Minnesota, USA · CC BY 2.0

Definitions of street sweeper

  1. 1nounstreet sweeperThe worker or machine that cleans the roads.B1

    “The street sweeper came past at half past five every morning.”

street sweeper is a worker.

Practised in In the City

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