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broom
noun- the person who is assigned to or takes it upon himself to keep a workplace neat US
Sometimes embellished to “broom man”. - The only person he ever saw making up the bunks, however, was the "broom man", an elderly cop who served as the station-house janitor and sometimes cooked hot meals for the clerical staff on a stove in the basement. — Peter Maas, Serpico, p. 68, 1973
- Sweeping the steps was the precinct “broom”, an old-timer no longer eager for street duty and working out retirement doing station-house chores. — Charles Whited, Chiodo, p. 129, 1973
- The stationhouse broom - a thirty-year hairbag who in addition to keeping the stationhouse clean was the precinct's gofer - saw his plight and shouted to him. — William J. Cavnitz, One Police Plaza, p. 359, 1984
- a hat US
- — Robert George Reisner, The Jazz Titans, p. 151, 1960
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