Usually means: Free from dirt and impurities.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. clean: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. clean: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. clean: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. clean: Collins English Dictionary
  5. clean: Vocabulary.com
  6. Clean, clean, clean: Wordnik
  7. clean: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. clean: Wiktionary
  9. clean: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. clean: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. clean: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Clean, clean: Dictionary.com
  13. clean: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. clean: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. CLEAN (algorithm), CLEAN, Clean (Deitiphobia album), Clean (Severed Heads album), Clean (Soccer Mommy album), Clean (Taylor Swift song), Clean (The Japanese House EP), Clean (disambiguation), Clean (film), Clean (movie), Clean (programming language), Clean, The Clean: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Clean: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. clean: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. clean: Rhymezone
  19. clean: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. clean: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Clean (your teeth): Britih-American Dictionary
  22. Clean, Clean: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. clean: Free Dictionary
  24. clean: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. clean: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. clean: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Cheese Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Clean: Financial dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  7. clean: Legal dictionary

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Clean, clean: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. clean: Netlingo
  3. Clean: Game Dictionary
  4. Clean: Dictionary of Programming Languages
  5. Clean (programming language), clean: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. clean: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. CLEAN: Acronym Finder
  2. Tea Terms (No longer online)
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. clean: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Clean: Easton Bible

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. clean, clean, clean: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. clean: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mountain Bike Slang (No longer online)
  2. Clean, The clean: Sports Definitions

Tech (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Clean: Glossary of Cheese Terms
  3. Glossary of Coffee Terminology (No longer online)
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Oil Analysis (No longer online)
  6. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  7. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  8. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  9. Clean: Latitude Mexico
  10. Wine Taster's Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (physical) Free of dirt or impurities.
adjective:  Not dirty, filthy, or soiled.
adjective:  In an unmarked condition.
adjective:  (aerodynamics) Allowing an uninterrupted flow over surfaces, without protrusions such as racks or landing gear.
adjective:  (aviation) Having the undercarriage and flaps in the up position.
adjective:  Empty.
adjective:  (of metal) Having relatively few impurities.
adjective:  (behavioral) Free of immorality or criminality.
adjective:  Pure, especially morally or religiously.
adjective:  Not having used drugs or alcohol.
adjective:  (of criminal, driving, etc. records) Without restrictions or penalties, or someone having such a record.
adjective:  (informal) Not in possession of weapons or contraband such as drugs.
adjective:  (informal) Devoid of profanity.
adjective:  Smooth, exact, and performed well.
adjective:  (obsolete) Total; utter. (still in "clean sweep")
adjective:  (informal) Cool or neat.
adjective:  (health, of a person) Free of infection or disease.
adjective:  (health) Devoid of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
adjective:  That does not damage the environment.
adjective:  Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects.
adjective:  Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.
adjective:  Well-proportioned; shapely.
adjective:  (climbing, of a route) Ascended without falling.
adjective:  (professional wrestling slang) Of a victory or performance: without any submission holds, disqualification, interference, etc.
noun:  Removal of dirt.
noun:  (weightlifting) The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders.
noun:  (in the plural, metal music) Clear vocals, contrasted with death growls and screams.
verb:  (transitive) To remove dirt from a place or object.
verb:  (transitive) To tidy up, make a place neat.
verb:  (transitive, climbing) To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.
verb:  (intransitive) To make things clean in general.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.).
verb:  (intransitive, curling) To brush the ice lightly in front of a moving rock to remove any debris and ensure a correct line; less vigorous than a sweep.
verb:  (manga fandom slang) To purge a raw of any blemishes caused by the scanning process such as brown tinting and poor color contrast.
verb:  (video games) Synonym of clean up
verb:  To remove guts and/or scales of a butchered animal.
adverb:  Fully and completely.
noun:  A surname.

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