Meaning of comb-out | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An act of combing out hair.
   countable, uncountable
2. The identification and removal of someone or something.
   countable, idiomatic, informal, uncountable
3. The act of sorting out.
   countable, idiomatic, slang, uncountable

Examples

“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.”

“I’d like to see a good comb-out up there, to catch out these sort of people.”

“[…]we were stopped by ten police mobile[…]this was one of the periodic comb-outs of streets in which the police hoped to catch criminals unawares.”

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