Definition of "broom"

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.

1949 November and December, “Notes and News: Festiniog and Welsh Highland Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 408

So keep talking all that fly shit, and I’ma grab the toolAnd the lead will get stuck in your head like a catchy tuneSoon as I look down on a target, bitch, your ass is doomedTrust exercise with Ahdi, arms out to catch a boomYou see this sweeper I got, it ain’t your average broomThis ring will wet this bitch like a happy groom

2015 September 26, Ms. Hustle (lyricist), Ms. Hustle vs. O’fficial (Summer Madness; 5)‎, Ultimate Rap League, from 48:07–48:28

I just got the drop, there is an oppOFB step with the broom

2017 July 17, OFB (RV, Kash, Lowkey, Headie One, Bradz & Tuggzy) (lyrics and music), “Loyal”‎, 2:45–2:47

He got forced to hold that broom, that dickhead reminds me of Cinderella

2019 September 11, Yanko (lyrics and music), “Next Up”, in #ACGK‎, 1:59

Pull up to the 🎵 get whacked with the broomTT liz on my line, so you know it got movedDistribute, click, click, shootThat's another face on frontline news

2020 July 2, “Stop Check”, LR of TPL (lyrics)‎

Back that strap then blaze, fry manTell bro “make sure you twos that yute”Rise that stick when the street needs cleaningThe pigs know this ain't no average broom

2020 July 3, “Lightwork Freestyle”, Y.CB of 7th (lyrics)‎

If F’s in the roomstep with the broomfinna here a boom with a boom!

2020 October 23, “Talk Bout Hollows”, DBF MD (lyrics), 0:30–0:33

“ […] Sidi, I was busy in the exercise of my functions, occupied in brooming the front of the stables, when who should come but Hhamed Ould Denéï on horseback, at full gallop, as if he were going to break his neck. […] ”

1855 September 29, Charles Dickens, "Model Officials", in Household Words: A Weekly Journal, Bradbury and Evens (1856), page 206

It was but this morning at eight, when poor Molly, was brooming the steps, and the baker paying her by no means unmerited compliments, that my landlady came whirling out of the ground-floor front, and sent the poor girl whimpering into the kitchen.

a. 1857, William Makepeace Thackeray, Our Street, in Christmas Books: Mrs. Perkins's Ball, Our Street, Dr. Birch, Chapman & Hall (1857), Our Street page 8

After that I did take the broom from its place, and I gave the floor a good brooming. I broomed the boards up and down and cross-ways. There was not a speck of dirt on them left.

a. 1920, Opal Stanley Whiteley, The Story of Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart, Atlantic Monthly Press (1920), pages 58–59

We broomed the dirt floor clean with spruce branches, brought our gear inside, and moved in.

1997, Will Hobbs, Far North, HarperCollins, page 100

A word to the "not-so-wise" about your girlfriend. Do what you need to with her, then broom her fast.

April 2002 Willem Dafoe as Norman Osborn, speaking to his son Harry, in the film "Spider-Man"

let the employee leave on his own, or the boss must broom him. If you hire, or inherit, able people, and you groom them, you won't have to broom them. Groom, broom, and watch your company zoom.

August 2002 Jeffrey J. Fox How to Become a Great Boss: The Rules for Getting and Keeping the Best Employees page 15

I was still going to go with Breslin until one day he said to me, "I got a confession to make to yo. When my mothe died on her deathbed I promised her I'd never drive a car and I still don't know how to drive a car." I figured for this picture you have to drive a car, so I just decided to broom him and go with an actor.

2012, George Stevens Jr., Conversations at the American Film Institute with the Great Moviemakers: The Next Generation, page 204