Definition of clean (one's) plate
clean (one's) plate 
verb
- to eat all the food on one's plate.
You can't have any desert until you clean your plate.
- See more words with the same meaning: to eat, drink.
Last edited on Oct 21 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Oct 21 2011.
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Other terms relating to 'to eat, drink': | |
| Definitions include: as a guest, to eat an excessive amount. | |
| Definitions include: to eat voraciously. | |
| Definitions include: to get something to eat. | |
| Definitions include: eating at a restaurant and leaving without paying. | |
| Definitions include: to eat voraciously. | |
| Definitions include: to consume. | |
| Definitions include: to eat. | |
| Definitions include: to expel liquid (or, more rarely, food) out one's nose by laughing in the middle of a swallow. | |
| Definitions include: a successful thing, especially a movie. | |
| Definitions include: oral sex given to a male. | |
| Definitions include: To date a girl and have sex with her, then move onto her sister and do the same. | |
| Definitions include: to clean. | |
| Definitions include: down the hatch, i.e. down one's throat. | |
| Definitions include: put one down; criticize. | |
| Definitions include: snack food, especially "junk" food. | |
Slang terms with the same root words
Other terms relating to 'clean': | |
| Definitions include: nice, excellent, worthy of envy; "cool"; "tight"; "awesome"; etc. | |
| Definitions include: someone who has to constantly clean; someone who obsessively cleans. | |
| Definitions include: to trim or shape one's "kitchen" (the hair on the back of the neck.) | |
| Definitions include: to have sex with a female. | |
| Definitions include: to take all of a person's money. | |
| Definitions include: to perform analingus. | |
| Definitions include: to get one's life in order. | |
| Definitions include: to look attractive. | |
| Definitions include: variation of "clean up good". | |
| Definitions include: to confess. | |
Other terms relating to 'plate': | |
| Definitions include: See on (one's) plate. | |
| Definitions include: London Cockney rhyming slang - china plate - mate | |
| Definitions include: to put the smack down. | |
| Definitions include: to have a lot on (one's) plate. | |
| Definitions include: as one's current responsibility. | |
| Definitions include: rhyming slang for mate. | |
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