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clean
adjective- drug-free US, 1949
- “Look, I kicked. I’m clean, I tell yah!” Fay repeated. — Alexander Trocchi, Cain’s Book, p. 156, 1960
- I was thinkin’ about askin’ you to see what you can do for me. I mean, like, when I get clean. — Nathan Heard, Howard Street, p. 79, 1968
- And yet, while we sat and rapped, he was hooked and I was clean. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 134, 1973
- “If I don’t get anything else out of all this,” he said, “I’m going to get clean.” — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 102, 1990
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 37, 1996
- I have to take a drug test every six months to make sure I’m clean. — American Beauty, 1999
- It probably took another two years to get off the gear altogether, but I’ve been clean since. — Robert Ashton, This Is Heroin, p. 78, 2002
- unarmed US, 1952
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 37, 1996
- innocent; free of suspicion; without a trace of guilt; without a criminal record US, 1925
- This is clean shit. No serial numbers and never been used. — 48 Hours, 1982
- I’ve been picked up a couple times. Loan sharking. Racketeering. But I was never convicted. I’m clean. — Get Shorty, 1995
- not subject to police surveillance US
- If some punk asks you if your ride is “clean,” he wants to know if it was tailed or not. — Henry Hill and Byron Schreckengost, A Good Fella’s Guide to New York, p. 13, 2003
- (used of an illegal betting operation) unafraid of police intervention because of bribes paid to the police US
- — David W. Maurer, Argot of the Racetrack, p. 20, 1951
- excellent, fashionable, stylish US
- — San Francisco Examiner, p. 8, 27 October 1963
- — Miss Cone, The Slang Dictionary (Hawthorne High School), 1965
- It was the one who had a Thunderbird, and some clean vines. — H. Rap Brown, Die Nigger Die!, p. 9, 1969
- It was lowered to da ground, had twice-pipes, candy-apple red and button top. Ooo, clean! — Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong, Santa Calus and his Old Lady, 1971
- I damn near didn’t know who he was, he was so clean. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 28, 1973
- Now we were big-time pimps from the New York scene / And believe me, Jim, we were both real clean. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 36, 1976
- (used of a theatrical performance) completely sold out US
- — Sherman Louis Sergel, The Language of Show Biz, p. 49, 1973
- in circus and carnival usage, without value US
- — Don Wilmeth, The Language of American Popular Entertainment, p. 55, 1981
- (of an object ball in pool) directly into the pocket without touching a cushion or another ball US
- — Mike Shamos, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Billiards, p. 51, 1993
▶ clean road for monkey to run
to labour for someone else’s benefit TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO- — Lise Winer, Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
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