A sweeper is a small tropical fish of the family Pempheridae.
Sweeper or sweepers may also refer to:
Literature
- "The Sweepers" (poem), by Rudyard Kipling
- The Sweepers (play), by John C. Picardi, about Italian-Americans in WWII Boston
Entertainment
- Sweepers (film), a 1998 American and South African action film
- Lu Tze, a character nicknamed 'Sweeper' in the Discworld series
- Sweeper (Black Cat), a bounty hunter from the manga series Black Cat
Sports
- Sweeper (association football), a defensive position in association football
- Sweeper (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse
- Another name for a sweeping slider or slurve pitch in baseball
Other uses
- Street sweeper, a person whose job is cleaning the streets or a machine for doing the same
- Carpet sweeper, a mechanical device for cleaning carpets and floors
- Vacuum cleaner, a similar device, sometimes called a "sweeper"
- Lawn sweeper, a garden tool for lawn care
- Radio sweeper, a short promotional sample used by radio stations
- An alternative term for a sweep account
See also
- Sweep
- Minesweeper
- All pages with titles beginning with Sweeper
- All pages with titles containing Sweeper
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