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clean
verb- by gambling, fraud or theft, to take all of someone’s money UK, 1812
A variant is “clean out.“. - When some man comes along and claims a godly need / He will clean you out right through your tweed / (“That’s right, you asked for it, remember there is a big difference between kneeling down and bending over . . .”) He’s got twenty million dollars in his Heavenly Bank Account. — Frank Zappa, Heavenly Bank Account, 1981
- to remove seeds, stems and foreign matter from marijuana leaves US, 1967
- in trucking, to pass another vehicle, especially another truck, at high speed US
- — Montie Tak, Truck Talk, p. 32, 1971
- to rid yourself of altered dice, altered cards or any evidence of cheating US
- — The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, p. 123, May 1950
- in mountain biking, to succeed in negotiating an obstacle or set of obstacles without accident US
- [A] series of five to seven small obstacles that I know I can clean without much thought. — Mountain Bike Magazine’s Complete Guide To Mountain Biking Skills, p. 41, 1996
▷ clean it up
to clarify or explain something US- — William K. Bentley and James M. Corbett, Prison Slang, p. 14, 1942
▶ clean out the kitchen; clean up the kitchen
to perform oral sex on a woman US, 1941- — Roger Blake, The American Dictionary of Sexual Terms, p. 51, 1964
▶ clean the books
to induce a criminal to confess to a series of unsolved crimes US- ▶ — Inez Cardozo-Freeman, The Joint, p. 488, 1984
▶ clean the cage out
to perform oral sex on a woman UK- — Paul Baker, Polari, p. 169, 2002
▶ clean the clock
on the railways, to make an emergency stop US
An allusion to the air gauge that drops to zero in an emergency stop.- — Ramon Adams, The Language of the Railroader, p. 33, 1977
▶ clean the kitchen
to lick your sex-partner’s anus UK- — Paul Baker, Polari, p. 169, 2002
▶ clean the pipes
to ejaculate; to masturbate US- DOM: You know, clean the pipes. TED: Pipes? What are you talking about? DOM: You jerk off before all big dates, right? — Something About Mary, 1998
▶ clean the table
in pool, to shoot all of the remaining balls in one turn US, 1989- — Mike Shamos, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Billiards, p. 51, 1993
▶ clean the tube
(of a male) to masturbate US
Using “tube” to mean “the penis.”- “The boy is masturbating” [...] Cleaning the tube[.] — Erica Orloff and JoAnn Baker, Dirty Little Secrets, p. 89, 2001
▶ clean up the calendar
(used of the police) to extract from a criminal confessions clearing up a number of crimes, regardless of his actual guilt, in exchange for lenient treatment on another crime US- — Jay Robert Nash, Dictionary of Crime, p. 68, 1992
▶ clean up your hands
in prison, to stay out of trouble US- First they do this by staying out of trouble, “cleaning up their hands.” — John Irwin, The Felon, p. 70, 1970
▶ clean your bones
to thrash or defeat someone soundly in a fight US- — American Speech, p. 276, December 1963: “American Indian student slang”
▶ clean your clock
to severely defeat someone, physically or in a competition US, 1959- [S]ince Turnipseed had got his clock cleaned in his own cell it wasn’t difficult to determine who deserved the credit. — Malcolm Braly, On the Yard, p. 202, 1967
- “We played poker,” added Jeremiah-Dumpling. “Cleaned his fucking clock.” — Carl Hiaasen, Native Tongue, p. 356, 1991
▶ clean yourself
to make sure that you are not being followed while driving US- Obviously Guido had just been cleaning himself, making sure nobody was following him, with the run to Staten Island. — Joseph Pistone, Donnie Brasco, p. 98, 1987
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