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What does sweptback mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word sweptback? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (of an aircraft wing) angled backwards from its attachment to the fuselage
  2. (of a hairstyle) backswept
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The sweptback headlights and bold chrome grille are obviously inspired by the 208 supermini, while at the rear it gets a set of claw-shaped LED lights.
You occasionally hear his voice from behind the camera, or catch sight of his sweptback silver hair.
The sweptback wings are very thin and the horizontal drift postpones is located all in bottom of the fuselage.
But in the flesh it looks awkward: its bonnet and vast sweptback windscreen too big for its body, like one of those egg-headed dogs Princess Anne is so fond of.
The third generation 4x4 is longer, wider and lower than the current model, with sweptback styling and Kia's bold tiger-nose grille flanked by large light clusters.
With his impatient expression, sweptback hair, barbered goatee and long, hawkish face, he looks like a Venetian doge, unhappy about the latest tax reports and getting ready to order some executions.

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