Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - clear out

1. If you tell someone to clear out of a place or to clear out, you are telling them rather rudely to leave the place. (INFORMAL) She turned to the others in the room. ‘The rest of you clear out of here.’... ‘Clear out!’ he bawled. ‘Private property!’ = get out PHRASAL VERB: V P of n, V P c darkgreen]disapproval 2. If you clear out a container, room, or house, you tidy it and throw away the things in it that you no longer want. I took the precaution of clearing out my desk before I left. PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), also V n P see also clear-out