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cleansheet

cleansheet is the alternative form of clean sheet.

Meaning of clean sheet

Noun

clean sheet (plural clean sheets)

  1. (figuratively) An absence of debts or indictments.
  2. (figuratively) A game played without having conceded a goal.
    • Birmingham had their defence to thank for a clean sheet, although they were lucky to escape when Manuel da Costa shot off-target and then headed wide.2011 February 6, Alistair Magowan, “West Ham 0 - 1 Birmingham”, in BBC
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see clean, sheet.

Forms of cleansheet

pluralcleansheets

Questions about cleansheet

What is cleansheet the alternative form of?
Cleansheet is the alternative form of clean sheet.

Words near cleansheet in the dictionary

  1. cleansers
  2. cleanses
  3. cleansest
  4. cleanseth
  5. cleanshaven
  6. cleansheet
  7. cleansheets
  8. cleansing
  9. cleansingly
  10. cleansings
  11. cleanskin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cleansheet (page history and authors); clean sheet (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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