upsweep

Meanings

Noun

• An upward sweep or curve.
• The upward motion of a swimmer's arm.
• A hairstyle where most of the hair is fastened into place at the top of the head.
• The unidentified sound detected on the American NOAA's equatorial autonomous hydrophone arrays, consisting of a long train of narrow-band upsweeping sounds of several seconds in duration.

Verb

• To sweep or curve upwards.

Origin

• up- + sweep