If you clear out a container, room, or house, you tidy it and throw away the things in it that you no longer want. I took the precaution of clearing out my desk before I left. see also clear-out
disapproval If you tell someone to clear out of a place or to clear out, you are telling them rather rudely to leave the place. She turned to the others in the room. `The rest of you clear out of here.' `Clear out!' he bawled. `Private property!' = get out