clean out

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clean out

verb cleans out · cleaning out · cleaned out

  1. transitive To clean, especially to tidy by removing the contents. Clean out your purse and at least get rid of all the trash you're hauling around.
  2. slang, transitive To take all money or possessions from. The divorce cleaned him out.

    Similar: clear out, take to the cleaners

  3. dated, slang, transitive To hit or strike (someone); to beat up. could have cleaned him out with an uppercut to the side of his head.
  4. To defeat, to cause to wash out. Liverpool needed a break and they got it at the beginning of the second half, from, of all things, a misplaced City pass. Aké was the culprit, undercooking his attempt to go back to Ederson and seeing Núñez steal in. He toed it away from the goalkeeper and was promptly cleaned out by him.

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@misc{clean_out_2026,
  title = {clean out},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/clean%20out},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}