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, 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 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''

Other uses in music

* Clean, an amplifier sound in guitar terminology * Clean vocals, a term used for singing to distinguish it from unclean vocals, such as screaming or growling * The Clean, 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), 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