Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In plumbing, a metal cylinder with a removable cap calked to a waste- or drain-pipe to facilitate its being cleaned out when stopped: as, a brass clean-out.
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Examples
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They convinced the Texas Parks and Wildlife to introduce grass carp, from Japan no less, to clean-out the hydrilla.
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They convinced the Texas Parks and Wildlife to introduce grass carp, from Japan no less, to clean-out the hydrilla.
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Go through your closet post clean-out, try things on, and figure out what style resonates best with you.
The Mommy Diet Alison J. Sweeney 2011
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Go through your closet post clean-out, try things on, and figure out what style resonates best with you.
The Mommy Diet Alison J. Sweeney 2011
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Drug Enforcement Administration sponsored a medicine-chest clean-out, during which folks were urged to clear out their cabinets and bring unneeded medications to designated drop-off spots.
Greg Giraldo's death highlights prescription abuse problem Jennifer LaRue Huget 2010
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In fact, my sister said that very thing during our last clean-out get-together, and I told her I remember Mom saying it after she cleaned out her mother's house.
Maria Rodale: The Best Toys For Young Minds Maria Rodale 2011
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You can see why an experienced clean-out crew would be flummoxed by this two-sided mailbox, right?
Retired Floridian Returns Home To Find His Home Foreclosed Upon, By Mistake 2011
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How else will ordinary Egyptians swell the numbers in the streets and so achieve a proper clean-out of the upper echelons of this rotten regime.
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It seems that Bank Of America, an institution known for the mass-manufacture of foreclosure errors that also occasionally dabbles in a little personal banking, sent a foreclosure "clean-out crew" out to a condominium at 4255 W.
Retired Floridian Returns Home To Find His Home Foreclosed Upon, By Mistake 2011
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Madrid may yet pay a high price for failing to force a real clean-out of bank balance sheets.
Spain Could Yet Regret Its Incomplete Banking Solution Simon Nixon 2012
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