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Definition 2024
clean_someone_out
clean out
See also: cleanout
English
Verb
clean out (third-person singular simple present cleans out, present participle cleaning out, simple past and past participle cleaned out)
- (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.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To empty completely; to remove all money or possessions from.
- The divorce cleaned him out.
- 1969, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid:
- "Well, looks like you just about cleaned everbody out, fella. You haven't lost a hand since you lost the deal."