Clean may refer to: *

Cleaning Cleaning is the process of removing unwanted substances, such as dirt, infectious agents, and other impurities, from an object or environment. Cleaning is often performed for aesthetic, hygienic, functional, environmental, or safety purposes. Cl ...

, the process of removing unwanted substances, such as dirt, infectious agents, and other impurities, from an object or environment *

Cleanliness Cleanliness is both the state of being clean and free from germs, dirt, trash, or waste, and the habit of achieving and maintaining that state. Cleanliness is often achieved through cleaning. Culturally, cleanliness is usually a good quality, as ...

, the state of being clean and free from dirt

Arts and media

Music

Albums

* ''Clean'' (Cloroform album), 2007 * ''Clean'' (Deitiphobia album), 1994 * ''Clean'' (Severed Heads album), 1981 * ''Clean'' (Shane & Shane album), 2004 * ''Clean'' (Soccer Mommy album), 2018 * ''Clean'' (The Japanese House EP), second EP by English indie pop act The Japanese House * ''Clean'' (Whores EP), second EP by American rock band Whores * ''Clean'', an

Edwin Starr Charles Edwin Hatcher (January 21, 1942 – April 2, 2003), known by his stage name Edwin Starr, was an American singer and songwriter. Starr was famous for his Norman Whitfield-produced Motown singles of the 1970s, most notably the number-on ...

album

Songs

* "Clean", a song by Depeche Mode from their 1990 album '' Violator'' *"Clean", a song by Taylor Swift from her album ''

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'', also covered by Ryan Adams from his album ''1989'' *"Clean", a song by KSI and Randolph from the 2019 album ''

New Age New Age is a range of spiritual or religious practices and beliefs which rapidly grew in Western society during the early 1970s. Its highly eclectic and unsystematic structure makes a precise definition difficult. Although many scholars conside ...

Other uses in music

* Clean, an

amplifier An amplifier, electronic amplifier or (informally) amp is an electronic device that can increase the magnitude of a signal (a time-varying voltage or current). It may increase the power significantly, or its main effect may be to boost the v ...

sound in guitar terminology * Clean vocals, a term used for

singing Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

to distinguish it from unclean vocals, such as screaming or growling *

The Clean The Clean was a New Zealand indie rock band that formed in Dunedin in 1978. They have been described as the most influential band to come from the Flying Nun label, which recorded many artists associated with the "Dunedin sound".Schmidt, Andr ...

, an influential first-wave indie rock band

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Clean'' (2004 film), a 2004 French drama film directed by Olivier Assayas * ''Clean'' (2021 film), a 2021 American crime drama film directed by Paul Solet * Clean comedy (or clean performance), entertainment which avoids profanity and other objectionable material; the opposite of

blue comedy Ribaldry or blue comedy is humorous entertainment that ranges from bordering on indelicacy to indecency. Blue comedy is also referred to as "bawdiness" or being "bawdy". Sex is presented in ribald material more for the purpose of poking fun at ...

Sports

Clean and jerk The clean and jerk is a composite of two weightlifting movements, most often performed with a barbell: the clean and the jerk. During the ''clean'', the lifter moves the barbell from the floor to a racked position across the deltoids, without res ...

, a weightlifting movement *

Clean climbing Clean climbing is rock climbing techniques and equipment which climbers use in order to avoid damage to the rock. These techniques date at least in part from the 1920s and earlier in England, but the term itself may have emerged in about 1970 dur ...

, the choice to employ non-destructive hardware and techniques in rock climbing

Other uses

Clean (programming language) Clean is a general-purpose programming language, general-purpose purely functional language, purely functional computer programming language. It was called the Concurrent Clean System, then the Clean System, later just Clean. Clean has been develo ...

, a purely functional programming language *

Clean language Clean language is a technique primarily used in counseling, psychotherapy and coaching but now also used in education, business, organisational change and health.Lawley, J. & Tompkins, P. (2000). ''Metaphors in Mind: Transformation Through Symbol ...

, a questioning technique used in psychotherapy and coaching