broom up

1. To clean something up using a broom; to sweep something up. A noun or pronoun can be used between "broom" and "up." I was excited about my internship with a local barber, until I realized that all I'd be doing was brooming hair up all day. My father didn't say a word as he broomed up the broken glass left over from the attack on his shop. Hey, keep the kids in there so I can broom up all these crumbs on the kitchen floor.

2. dated Of a piece of wood, to become split and frayed, like the end of a broom. The storm left the jib boom pretty badly broomed up. Watch out for splinters—Pat broomed up the deck pretty good when he power washed it. A: "That hit sure broomed up Jed's bat!" B: "I know, a whole section of it flew off and almost hit the third baseman!"