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clean
1. mod. not using drugs; not involved with drugs. I’ve been clean for more than a month now.
2. mod. sober; not intoxicated with drugs at the moment. (Almost the same as sense 1) Just being clean for a day is an accomplishment.
3. mod. not breaking any law. (Police and underworld.) I’m clean, officer. You can’t charge me with anything.
4. mod. not carrying a weapon. (Police and underworld.) I frisked him. He’s clean.
5. mod. well-dressed. Now there’s a clean dude!
- (as) clean as a hound's tooth
- (do something) with a vengeance
- (one's) conscience is clean
- a clean bill of health
- a clean sheet
- be (as) clean as a new pin
- be (as) clean as a whistle
- be cleaned out
- clean
- clean (one's) act up
- clean (one's) plate (up)
- clean (one's) plow
- clean (someone or something) out of (something)
- clean (someone's) clock
- clean act up
- clean as a hound's tooth
- clean as a whistle
- clean bill of health
- clean break
- clean clock
- clean code
- clean down
- clean hands, have
- clean house
- clean off
- clean one’s act up
- clean out
- clean out of
- clean plate
- clean plow
- clean sheet
- clean slate
- clean someone out
- clean someone's clock
- clean sweep
- clean the floor (up) with (one)
- clean the floor up with
- clean up
- clean up (one's) act
- clean up act
- clean up nice(ly)
- clean up on something
- clean up your act
- clean-cut
- cleaned out
- come clean
- come clean about something
- come clean with someone
- come clean with someone about something
- fresh out of
- get (one's) clock cleaned
- have a clean conscience
- have a clear conscience
- have clean hands
- keep (one's) hands clean
- keep (one's) slate clean
- keep nose clean
- keep one’s nose clean
- keep one's nose clean
- keep your nose clean
- make a clean break (from/with someone or something)
- make a clean breast
- make a clean breast of
- make a clean breast of something
- make a clean sweep
- new broom sweeps clean, a
- New brooms sweep clean
- poor but clean
- scrub off
- show (someone) a clean pair of heels
- show one's heels
- so clean you could eat off the floor
- someone's hands are clean
- squeaky clean
- start (off) with a clean slate
- start over with a clean slate
- start with a clean slate
- wipe (one's) slate clean
- wipe slate clean and wipe the slate clean
- wipe the slate clean