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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!

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• (one's) conscience is clean
• a clean bill of health
• a clean break
• a clean sheet
• a clean slate
• a clean sweep
• be (as) clean as a whistle
• be as clean as a whistle
• be cleaned out
• clean
• 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
• clean up
• clean up act
• clean up on something
• 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) slate clean
• keep hands clean
• keep nose clean
• keep one’s nose clean
• keep one's 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 it
• make a clean sweep
• new broom sweeps clean, a
• New brooms sweep clean
• poor but clean
• scrub off
• show a clean pair of heels
• show one's heels
• so clean you could eat off the floor
• squeaky clean
• 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