"lick clean" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: licks clean [present, singular, third-person], licking clean [participle, present], licked clean [participle, past], licked clean [past]
Etymology: lick + clean Etymology templates: {{compound|en|lick|clean}} lick + clean Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} lick clean (third-person singular simple present licks clean, present participle licking clean, simple past and past participle licked clean)
  1. (transitive) To empty (something) by eating its contents. Tags: transitive Related terms: lick up Translations (empty by eating contents): syödä tyhjäksi (Finnish), auslecken (German), выли́зывать (vylízyvatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), вы́лизать (výlizatʹ) [perfective] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-lick_clean-en-verb-1QNcvA0P Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Russian terms with redundant script codes

Inflected forms

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