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clean out

verb
  1. To clean, especially to tidy by removing the contents. (transitive) · Clean out your purse and at least get rid of all the trash you're hauling around.
  2. To take all money or possessions from. (slang, transitive) · The divorce cleaned him out.
  3. To hit or strike (someone); to beat up. (dated, slang, transitive)
  4. To defeat, to cause to wash out.
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He told me to tell yer he’s got his collars and cuffs in dat grip for a scoot clean out to ’Frisco.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 36 · C1

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