comb-out

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comb-out

/ˈkəʊ̯mˌaʊ̯t/ UK
/ˈkoʊ̯mˌaʊ̯t/ Canada, US
/ˈkəʉ̯mˌæɔ̯t/ Australia
/ˈkɐʉ̯mˌæʊ̯t/ New Zealand
/ˈkomˌʌʊ̯t/ Scotland
/ˈkoːmˌawʈ/ India

Rhymes with -əʊmaʊt

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Deverbal from comb out. First attested in 1915–1920 (sense 1 and sense 2). First attested in 1940 (sense 3).

noun comb-outs

countable, uncountable An act of combing out hair.
Similar: teasing
countable, idiomatic, informal, uncountable The identification and removal of someone or something.
countable, idiomatic, slang, uncountable The act of sorting out. McCann and I took ten men each and made a systematic comb-out of the Gardens. Every sniper we found we shot out of hand.

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@misc{comb_out_2026,
  title = {comb-out},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/comb-out},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}