Meaning of clean out | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To clean, especially to tidy by removing the contents.
   transitive
2. To take all money or possessions from.
   slang, transitive
3. To hit or strike (someone); to beat up.
   dated, slang, transitive
4. To defeat, to cause to wash out.

Equivalents

Examples

“Clean out your purse and at least get rid of all the trash you're hauling around.”

“As soon as they have been pumped dry they are thoroughly cleaned out with high pressure hoses to prepare them for the next load.”

“The divorce cleaned him out.”

“Well, looks like you just about cleaned everybody out, fella. You haven't lost a hand since you lost the deal.”

“could have cleaned him out with an uppercut to the side of his head.”

“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.”

CEFR level