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sweptback

[ swept-bak ]

adjective

Aeronautics.
  1. (of the leading edge of an airfoil) forming a markedly obtuse angle with the fuselage.
  2. (of an aircraft or winged missile) having wings of this type.


sweptback

/ ˈɛˌæ /

adjective

  1. (of an aircraft wing) having leading edge and trailing edges inclined backwards towards the rear of the fuselage
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of sweptback1

First recorded in 1915–20; adj. use of verb phrase swept back
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Van Tatenhove was covered in tattoos with several just visible below his sweptback gray hair.

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At 37, he emits the polished gloss of a man on the rise in a capital dominated by much-older power brokers: not one strand of his thick, sweptback hair is out of place or gray.

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But Stalin’s famous visage, with its bushy mustache and sweptback hair, is upstaged by the throngs of ordinary citizens who gather to bear witness and pay tribute.

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At Chloé’s spring show, for example, models wore a more low-key, but still bouncy, sweptback look.

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Simon Harrold was a tweedy Englishman in his mid-40s, with a neat, white beard and thinning, sweptback hair, longer in the back.

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