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| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| clean (kliːn) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | without dirt or other impurities; unsoiled |
| 2. | without anything in it or on it: a clean page |
| 3. | recently washed; fresh |
| 4. | without extraneous or foreign materials |
| 5. | without defect, difficulties, or problems: a clean test flight |
| 6. | a. (of a nuclear weapon) producing little or no radioactive fallout or contamination |
| b. Compare dirty uncontaminated | |
| 7. | (of a wound, etc) having no pus or other sign of infection |
| 8. | pure; morally sound |
| 9. | without objectionable language or obscenity: a clean joke |
| 10. | (of printer's proofs, etc) relatively free from errors; easily readable: clean copy |
| 11. | thorough or complete: a clean break |
| 12. | dexterous or adroit: a clean throw |
| 13. | sport played fairly and without fouls |
| 14. | simple in design: a ship's clean lines |
| 15. | aeronautics causing little turbulence; streamlined |
| 16. | (of an aircraft) having no projections, such as rockets, flaps, etc, into the airstream |
| 17. | honourable or respectable |
| 18. | habitually neat |
| 19. | (esp of a driving licence) showing or having no record of offences |
| 20. | slang |
| a. innocent; not guilty | |
| b. not carrying illegal drugs, weapons, etc | |
| 21. | of a vessel nautical |
| a. having its bottom clean | |
| b. having a satisfactory bill of health | |
| 22. | Old Testament |
| a. (of persons) free from ceremonial defilement | |
| b. (of animals, birds, and fish) lawful to eat | |
| 23. | New Testament morally and spiritually pure |
| 24. | clean sweep See sweep |
| —vb | |
| 25. | to make or become free of dirt, filth, etc: the stove cleans easily |
| 26. | (tr) to remove in making clean: to clean marks off the wall |
| 27. | (tr) to prepare (fish, poultry, etc) for cooking: to clean a chicken |
| —adv | |
| 28. | in a clean way; cleanly |
| 29. | not standard (intensifier): clean forgotten; clean dead |
| 30. | cricket clean bowled bowled by a ball that breaks the wicket without hitting the batsman or his bat |
| 31. | informal come clean to make a revelation or confession |
| —n | |
| 32. | the act or an instance of cleaning: he gave his shoes a clean |
| [Old English clǣne; related to Old Frisian klēne small, neat, Old High German kleini] | |
| 'cleanable | |
| —adj | |
| 'cleanness | |
| —n | |