Definition of "upsweep" [upsweep]

• An upward curve or sweep. (noun)
• A hairdo that is smoothed upward in the back and piled on top of the head. (noun)
• To brush, curve, or sweep upward. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "You can get a flattered face just from an upsweep of your longer hair."
• "The mother just up and left, Brenda had told a customer through the bobby pins she held in one corner of her mouth while she fashioned an upsweep."
• "My mother delighted in towering over him, wearing her hair in an upsweep, donning a wiglet for extra height, and then topping it all off with a hat—not some discreet cloche or beret but a plumed number with feathers soaring six inches up into the air."