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cleanout

cleanout noun: an opening or drain leading into a plumbing system to provide a location to insert a snake or other implement for cleaning.

Noun

cleanout (plural cleanouts)

  1. An opening or drain leading into a plumbing system to provide a location to insert a snake or other implement for cleaning.
  2. A thorough cleaning that removes everything removable.
    • attic, basement, and garage cleanouts [in advertisements]
  3. (informal) An enema.

Forms of cleanout

pluralcleanouts

Origin of cleanout

Deverbal from clean out.

Questions about cleanout

What does cleanout mean?
Cleanout means an opening or drain leading into a plumbing system to provide a location to insert a snake or other implement for cleaning.
What part of speech is cleanout?
Cleanout is a noun.
What is the plural of cleanout?
The plural of cleanout is cleanouts.

Words near cleanout in the dictionary

  1. cleanliness is next to godliness
  2. cleanlinesses
  3. cleanly
  4. cleanness
  5. cleannesses
  6. cleanout
  7. cleanouts
  8. cleanroom
  9. cleanroomed
  10. cleanrooming
  11. cleanrooms

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