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sweptback
[ swept-bak ]
adjective
- (of the leading edge of an airfoil) forming a markedly obtuse angle with the fuselage.
- (of an aircraft or winged missile) having wings of this type.
sweptback
/ ˈswɛptˌbæk /
adjective
- (of an aircraft wing) having leading edge and trailing edges inclined backwards towards the rear of the fuselage
Word History and Origins
Origin of sweptback1
Example Sentences
Van Tatenhove was covered in tattoos with several just visible below his sweptback gray hair.
At 37, he emits the polished gloss of a man on the rise in a capital dominated by much-older power brokers: not one strand of his thick, sweptback hair is out of place or gray.
But Stalin’s famous visage, with its bushy mustache and sweptback hair, is upstaged by the throngs of ordinary citizens who gather to bear witness and pay tribute.
At Chloé’s spring show, for example, models wore a more low-key, but still bouncy, sweptback look.
Simon Harrold was a tweedy Englishman in his mid-40s, with a neat, white beard and thinning, sweptback hair, longer in the back.
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