Usually means: Angled backward from the front.
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  1. backswept: Merriam-Webster
  2. backswept: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. backswept: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. backswept: Collins English Dictionary
  5. backswept: Vocabulary.com
  6. backswept: Wordnik
  7. backswept: Wiktionary
  8. backswept: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. backswept: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. backswept: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. backswept: Dictionary.com
  12. backswept: Rhymezone
  13. backswept: FreeDictionary.org
  14. backswept: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. backswept: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. backswept: Merriam-Webster

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▸ adjective:  Swept back.

Similar:
backward, sweptback, sideswept, snowswept, switchbacky, sandward, switch, skirted, backshot, backsliding, more...

Opposite:
forward-swept, straight, upright, erect

Types:
oblique, slanted, diagonal, inclined, askew, crooked, warped, more...

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Similar:
backward, sweptback, sideswept, snowswept, switchbacky, sandward, switch, skirted, backshot, backsliding, more...

Opposite:
forward-swept, straight, upright, erect

Types:
oblique, slanted, diagonal, inclined, askew, crooked, warped, more...



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