Definition of "sweptback" [sweptback]

• Angled rearward from the points of attachment. Used especially of aircraft wings. (adjective)
• Having wings of this type. Used of an aircraft. (adjective)

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• "The broad-shouldered man, with dark sweptback hair, was wearing a slick suit, its color a blue just the regal side of navy and therefore suggestive of a uniform."
• "Looking at some buteoine hawk and aquiline eagle skulls online, the first skull lacks the winglike sweptback bones preorbitals maybe?"
• "Twin, sweptback, and tapered fins with angular tips."