Sweep

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Sweep may refer to:

Cleaning

• Chimney sweep
• Street sweeper

Sports

• Sweep (football play)
• Sweep (martial arts)
• Sweep (rowing)
• Batting (cricket)#Types of batting shots, a shot played in cricket
• A nickname for football player Shaun Wright-Phillips
• An expression used in sports that have best of multiple game playoff series when a team wins the required number of games without a single loss. (Example Basketball: 1991 NBA Eastern Conference Finals Chicago Bulls vs Detroit Pistons/Best of seven series/Bulls win 4-0)

Farming

• Sweep (agricultural)

Detection

• Bug sweeping
• Minesweeping

Other meanings

• Sweep (horse), a champion thoroughbred race horse
• Sweep (book series), a fictional series by Cate Tiernan
• Sweep (software), a digital audio editor
• Sweep (fish) a number of fish in the suborder Scorpidinae
• Sweep account, a kind of bank account
• Sweep line algorithm, a concept in computational geometry
• Sweep-picking, a guitar technique
• Swept wing, a layout of the wings on an airplane
• Sweeps period, a system of calculating viewership for television programming
• Sweep (puppet), a character on the Sooty television show
• SWEEPS, the Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search
• Sweepstakes, a sales promotion or lottery

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