Usually means: Old Irish surname meaning "pleasant."
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  1. sweeney: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Sweeney: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sweeney: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Sweeney, sweeney: Wordnik
  5. Sweeney: Wiktionary
  6. sweeney: Dictionary.com
  7. Sweeney (disambiguation), Sweeney (name), Sweeney, Sweeney, The Sweeney: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Sweeney: Rhymezone
  9. Sweeney: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Sweeney: Encyclopedia

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  1. sweeney: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  1. sweeney: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. (the) Sweeney: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. The Sweeney: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Sweeney)

noun:  A surname from Irish.
noun:  (Cockney rhyming slang) The Flying Squad, a branch of the London police service.

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