broom

intj

1. Alternative form of brrm (“sound of a car engine”) (often used reduplicatively)

   “I'm in me mum's car, broom broom”

name

1. A number of places in England:
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6. A suburb of Newton Mearns, East Renfrewshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS5556).
7. A hamlet in Kilgetty/Begelly community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN1108).
8. A surname.

noun

Etymology: Inherited from Middle English brom, from Old English brōm (“brushwood”), from Proto-West Germanic *brām (“bramble”) (compare Saterland Frisian Brom, West Frisian brem, Dutch braam, German Low German Braam), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrem-, from *bʰer- ‘edge’. Related to brim, brink. Replaced English besom (from Old English besma (“broom, rod”)), which is now restricted in meaning to a particular kind of broom. (shotgun): So called because it is (like the cleaning utensil) long and held similarly to a besom and “cleans” what is in front.

1. A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.

   “Meronyms: broomstick (handle), bavin (head)”

2. An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a sweeper.
3. Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, with long, stiff, thin branches and small or few leaves used for the domestic utensil.

   “At the same time, the encroachment of vegetation proceeds apace, and broom and brambles have already made portions of the line impassable, even on foot.”

4. Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, with long, stiff, thin branches and small or few leaves used for the domestic utensil.

   “[…] and thy broom groves, Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves, Being lass-lorn […]”

5. Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, with long, stiff, thin branches and small or few leaves used for the domestic utensil.
6. A firearm; especially, a shotgun.

   “So keep talking all that fly shit, and I’ma grab the tool And the lead will get stuck in your head like a catchy tune Soon as I look down on a target, bitch, your ass is doomed Trust exercise with Ahdi, arms out to catch a boom You see this sweeper I got, it ain’t your average broom This ring will wet this bitch like a happy groom”

   “I just got the drop, there is an opp OFB step with the broom”

verb

1. Alternative form of bream (“to clean a ship's bottom”).