sweeper

noun

• 1a person or device that cleans a floor or road by sweeping: a street sweeper

• 2 Soccer a player stationed behind the other defenders, free to defend at any point across the field and sometimes initiating and supporting attacks.

• 3a small nocturnal shoaling fish of reefs and coastal waters, occurring chiefly in the tropical Indo-Pacific.

  • Family Pempheridae: several genera and species, including the western Atlantic glassy sweeper (Pempheris schomburgki), with transparent young