Definitions
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- noun the act of removing tangles from you hair with a comb
- noun the act of carefully weeding out unwanted things or people
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Examples
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They can do your comb-out at the same time they do your nails!
Picnic with dog and iPhone. Ann Althouse 2009
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Simply eke out some extra time to go beyond your basic quick lipstick and comb-out.
Before You Put That On Lloyd Boston 2005
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Simply eke out some extra time to go beyond your basic quick lipstick and comb-out.
Before You Put That On Lloyd Boston 2005
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Simply eke out some extra time to go beyond your basic quick lipstick and comb-out.
Before You Put That On Lloyd Boston 2005
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Their conversation focused on Marla's work while she proceeded through the shampoo, conditioning, and comb-out.
Body Wave Cohen, Nancy J, 2002
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I held that thought through the rinse and the comb-out.
Three to Get Deadly Janet Evanovich 1999
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Police with tracker dogs have led a massive two-day comb-out of the secluded dale.
A Place of Execution McDermid, Val 1999
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He had the cheek to suggest that I should be next, that I could use a comb-out, I think it was.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Berendt, John 1994
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He had the cheek to suggest that I should be next, that I could use a comb-out, I think it was.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Berendt, John 1994
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Still more ludicrous, although the directives for the comb-out of civilians emanated from Goebbels 'office, the apparatus for implementing them was operated by Bormann through the district Gauleiters.
Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965
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