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clean

clean

116 4.6
Not using illegal drugs
  • adjective
  • /klin/
: limpio
  • I have been clean while maintaining good grades.
  • stay clean
  • get clean
  • clean and sober

I was six months clean and I didn't mess it up.

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Examples

  • Seven years clean.

  • Darla is nervously smoking, doing her best to stay clean, but jittery.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • But what happened was at six years clean, I lost everything again.

  • And when I got clean, I stopped that.

  • Did my father get himself clean and straight?

  • We're so quick to judge somebody else when we're not clean ourselves.

  • I'm clean almost five years.

  • I was six months clean and I didn't mess it up.

  • I'm eight years clean, I'm sober and I go, wow.

  • After years of struggling with addiction, he is proud to say he has been clean for more than five years.

Synonyms

stone cold sober
vsclean
  • Informal
3 5.6

Not affected by alcohol or drugs at all

refers only to avoiding illegal drugs, often after recovering from addiction

Antonyms

addicted
  • NSFW
223 4.1

Unable to stop using drugs, alcohol or video games

Idioms

An official statement that a person or thing is healthy and has no serious problems

9 5.0

To start fresh by forgetting past mistakes and problems

8 9.3

Beat someone badly in a game or fight

To tell the whole truth about something wrong you did

Do something new and not worry about past mistakes

Run away quickly to avoid danger or trouble

To avoid trouble and not attract bad attention

Compounds

48 1.0

Water that is safe to drink and use

clean slate
  • Informal
31 4.1

A chance to start again without being blamed for past mistakes

18 3.8

Having a neat, smart look and tidy clothes

clean break
  • Informal
15 3.9

A complete ending of a relationship or old life to start fresh

14 3.5

A person with no hair on the face, like on the chin and cheeks

clean sweep
  • Informal
9 3.6

A full success when someone wins everything or makes a complete change

8 3.7

Living in a morally careful way and avoiding drinking, smoking, and drugs

clean room
  • Specialized
7 6.4

A room where people keep the air and surfaces very clean for making microchips and other sensitive equipment

clean-burning
  • Specialized
4 5.3

Produces little smoke or ash when burned

clean code
  • Specialized
1 4.0

Clear, well organized computer instructions that are easy to read and change

code clean
  • Specialized
1 5.8

Source code written clearly so other programmers can read and change it

clean and jerk
  • Specialized
1 4.1

A weightlifting move where you lift a heavy bar to your shoulders then push it above your head

Very clean and tidy with no dirt or marks

clean bomb
  • Archaic
1 6.1

A nuclear bomb that produces very little radioactive fallout

An organized activity where people pick up litter in a public place

1 7.4

Having well-shaped arms and legs that look strong and graceful

8.0

A style of building with simple straight lines and visible wood parts

clean-up event
  • Specialized
3.7

A scheduled task that deletes temporary files to free disk space

7.2

A clean room where air moves in smooth parallel layers to keep tiny particles away during work like making microchips

How Sober

clean
116 4.6
sober
286 3.2
recovered
31 3.1
addicted
  • NSFW
223 4.1

Surface Forms

clean positive
cleaner comparative
cleanest superlative

Etymology

Clean kept its old idea of 'free from' and now is used for not using drugs, so if someone is clean they are free from drug use.