comb-out

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈkəʊ̯mˌaʊ̯t/    美 /ˈkoʊ̯mˌaʊ̯t/|/ˈkəʉ̯mˌæɔ̯t/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An act of combing out hair. countable,uncountable
  2. The identification and removal of someone or something. countable,idiomatic,informal,uncountable
  3. The act of sorting out. countable,idiomatic,slang,uncountable
    — McCann and I took ten men each and made a systematic comb-out of the Gardens. Every sniper we found we shot out of hand.

词形变化

comb-outs plural

词源

Deverbal from comb out. First attested in 1915–1920 (sense 1 and sense 2). First attested in 1940 (sense 3).
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