An act of combing out hair.
The identification and removal of someone or something.
The act of sorting out.
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.
Deverbal from comb out. First attested in 1915–1920 (sense 1 and sense 2). First attested in 1940 (sense 3).
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