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noun

an overwhelming or decisive victory, as by a political candidate who wins in all or almost all election districts.

the winning of all the prizes, rounds, contests, etc., in a competition or of all the games in a series.

a thorough or sweeping change, especially one effected by the large-scale removal or elimination of unwanted persons or things: The new president made a clean sweep when he joined the company, replacing all the department heads.

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clean sweep definition

n.
a broad movement clearing or affecting everything in the pathway. (Usually figurative.) : Everybody got a raise. It was a clean sweep.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

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clean sweep

see make a clean sweep.

Example sentences

In the end one has only raised more dust where one wished to make a clean sweep.

Send old paint, fertilizer and other chemicals to your local community clean sweep program.

If this information is to be credited, the damage in the town proper must be in the nature of a clean sweep.

In some years, the move from general staff to industry is a virtual clean sweep.

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"When I first took up my abode in the woods, that is, began to spend my nights as well as days there, which, by accident, was on Independence Day, or the Fourth of July, 1845, my house was not finished for winter, but was merely a defence against the rain, without plastering or chimney, the walls being of rough, weather-stained boards, with wide chinks, which made it cool at night. The upright white hewn studs and freshly planed door and window casings gave it a clean and airy look, especially in the morning, when its timbers were saturated with dew, so that I fancied that by noon some sweet gum would exude from them. To my imagination it retained throughout the day more or less of this auroral character, reminding me of a certain house on a mountain which I had visited a year before. This was an airy and unplastered cabin, fit to entertain a travelling god, and where a goddess might trail her garments. The winds which passed over my dwelling were such as sweep over the ridges of mountains, bearing the broken strains, or celestial parts only, of terrestrial music. The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears that hear it. Olympus is but the outside of the earth everywhere."

-Henry David Thoreau