verbal phr. (colloquial).—To exhaust; strip; ‘rack’; or ruin. Fr., se faire lessiver.

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  1819.  J. H. VAUX, A Vocabulary of the Flash Language. CLEANED OUT, said of a gambler who has lost his last stake at play; also, of a flat who has been stript of all his money by a coalition of sharps.

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  1819.  T. MOORE, Tom Crib’s Memorial to Congress, p. 38.

        All Lombard-street to ninepence on it,
  Bobby’s the boy would CLEAN them OUT!

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  1840.  DICKENS, The Old Curiosity Shop, ch. xxix. He never took a dice-box in his hand, or held a card, but he was plucked, pigeoned, and CLEANED OUT completely.

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  c. 1880.  Broadside Ballad, ‘When I Was Prince of Paradise.’

        I introduced ‘loo’—in an hour or two
  I’d CLEANED all their pockets right OUT.

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