broom• There's pots to wash and a broom under the counter.• He would have reached for a broom or a piece of kindling.• Banisterinstalls him in a broomcloset upstairs.• Like the rituals of harvest and planting in pastoral societies, the desertbroomtufts are a sign.• We compared the sizes of the gardeners' brooms with our own.• I mean, that bit in the broomcupboard - oh, you didn't see it, did you?• It's the same place Boris Becker got his mistresspregnant in the broom cupboard.• I looked back and saw them coming after me with the broom.
Originbroom
1. Old Englishbrom“broom plant”;
2. because broom branches were used for making brushes