push broom

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   a wide broom that is pushed ahead of the sweeper

   Broaderbroom

Questions about push broom

What does push broom mean?

push broom means "a wide broom that is pushed ahead of the sweeper".

Is push broom a common word?

push broom is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.