cleanout

[ kleen-out ]

noun
  1. an act of cleaning out.

  2. an opening or passage giving access to a place that requires occasional cleaning, as a soil pipe.

Origin of cleanout

1
1885–90, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase clean out

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British Dictionary definitions for clean out

clean out

verb(tr, adverb)
  1. (foll by of or from) to remove (something) (from or away from)

  2. slang to leave (someone) with no money: gambling had cleaned him out

  1. informal to exhaust (stocks, goods, etc) completely

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Other Idioms and Phrases with cleanout

cleanout

See clean up, def. 1.

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