掃街

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See also: 扫街

Chinese

broom; to sweep street
trad. (掃街)
simp. (扫街)

Pronunciation


Verb

掃街

  1. to sweep the streets
  2. (photography) to make a clean sweep (of an area with one's camera)
  3. (colloquial) to make a clean sweep (of the shops)
  4. (Cantonese) to try out every roadside food stall; to make a complete scrutiny of all the street food stalls
  5. (chiefly Cantonese) to canvass for votes

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