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 beauty, aesthetic, hygiene, hygienic, Function (engineering), function ...

, 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 Germ (microorganism), germs, dirt, Trash (garbage), trash, or waste, and the habit of achieving and maintaining that state. Cleanliness is often achieved through cleaning. Culturally, cl ...

, 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" (song), by Taylor Swift from her album ''1989'', also covered by Ryan Adams from his album ''1989'' *"Clean", a song by Depeche Mode from their 1990 album '' Violator'' *"Clean", a song by Incubus from their 1999 album '' Make Yourself'' *"Clean", a song by KSI and Randolph from the 2019 album ''

New Age New Age is a range of Spirituality, spiritual or Religion, religious practices and beliefs that rapidly grew in Western world, Western society during the early 1970s. Its highly eclecticism, eclectic and unsystematic structure makes a precise d ...

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 is a two-port electronic circuit that uses electric power from a power su ...

sound in guitar terminology * Clean vocals, a term used for singing to distinguish it from unclean vocals, such as

screaming A scream is a loud/hard speech production, vocalization in which air is passed through the vocal cords with greater force than is used in regular or close-distance vocalisation. This can be performed by any creature possessing lungs, including h ...

or growling * Clean, a term used for the edited or censored version of a piece of media; see Parental Advisory#Application * 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

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 rest ...

, a weightlifting movement * Clean climbing, the choice to employ non-destructive hardware and techniques in rock climbing

Other uses

* Clean (programming language), a purely functional programming language * Clean language, a questioning technique used in psychotherapy and coaching