(slang, idiomatic) The act of sorting out.
we were stopped by ten police mobilethis was one of the periodic comb-outs of streets in which the police hoped to catch criminals unawares.
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An act of combing out hair.
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.
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(informal, idiomatic) The identification and removal of someone or something.
I’d like to see a good comb-out up there, to catch out these sort of people.
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