Usually means: Tool for sweeping floors clean.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word broom:

General (32 matching dictionaries)
  1. broom: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. broom: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. broom: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. broom: Collins English Dictionary
  5. broom: Vocabulary.com
  6. Broom, broom: Wordnik
  7. broom: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Broom, broom: Wiktionary
  9. broom: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. broom: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. broom: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. broom: Dictionary.com
  13. broom: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. broom: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Broom (album), Broom (disambiguation), Broom (plant), Broom (shrub), Broom (surname), Broom: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Broom: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. broom: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. broom: Rhymezone
  19. broom: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. broom: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Broom: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. broom: Free Dictionary
  23. broom: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Broom, broom: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. broom: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. broom: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BROOM: Band Terms
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Broom (Harry Potter), Broom (shrub), Broom (tool), broom: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Broom (Harry Potter), Broom (shrub), Broom (tool), broom: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. BROOM: Acronym Finder
  3. broom: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Broom: Botanical Name listing of Plants
  2. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. broom, broom, broom, broom, broom: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. broom: The Folk File
  3. Broom, The Broom: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Broom: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.
noun:  (countable, curling) An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a sweeper.
noun:  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.
noun:  especially, of the tribe Genisteae, including genera Cytisus, Genista, and Spartium
noun:  of plants not closely related to those of tribe Genisteae.
noun:  (slang, rare) A shotgun.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To sweep with a broom.
verb:  (roofing) To improve the embedding of a membrane by using a broom or squeegee to smooth it out and ensure contact with the adhesive under the membrane.
verb:  (figurative) to get rid of someone, like firing an employee or breaking up with a girlfriend, to sweep another out of one's life
noun:  A number of places in England:
noun:  A village in Southill parish, Central Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire (OS grid ref TL1743).
noun:  A hamlet in Long Marton parish, Eden district, Cumbria (OS grid ref NY6623).
noun:  A locality in Thorncombe parish, west Dorset, on the boundary with Devon and close to Somerset (OS grid ref ST3202).
noun:  A southern suburb of Rotherham, South Yorkshire (OS grid ref SK4491).
noun:  A village in Bidford-on-Avon parish, Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire (OS grid ref SP0853).
noun:  A suburb of Newton Mearns, East Renfrewshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS5556).
noun:  A hamlet in Kilgetty/Begelly community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN1108).
noun:  A surname.
verb:  (nautical) Alternative form of bream (“to clean a ship's bottom”) [(nautical) To clean (e.g. a ship's bottom of clinging shells, seaweed, etc.) by the application of fire and scraping.]

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