muck out

verb

To clean the excrement and other rubbish from the area where an animal is kept, such as a horse stable or a dog kennel.

“Could you muck out Toby's stable, please?”

Meanings

verbmuck out (third-person singular simple present mucks out, present participle mucking out, simple past and past participle mucked out)

present singular third person mucks out · participle present mucking out · participle past mucked out · past mucked out

  1. transitiveTo clean the excrement and other rubbish from the area where an animal is kept, such as a horse stable or a dog kennel.

    Could you muck out Toby's stable, please?

  2. datedtransitiveTo financially ruin a gambler; to win against a gambler; to clean out a gambler.

Translations

Hungarian ganéz, kiganéz
  • ganézto clean the excrement and other rubbish from the area where an animal is kept
  • kiganézto clean the excrement and other rubbish from the area where an animal is kept
  • ganajozto clean the excrement and other rubbish from the area where an animal is kept
  • kiganajozto clean the excrement and other rubbish from the area where an animal is kept
Swedish mocka
  • mockato clean the excrement and other rubbish from the area where an animal is kept
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Chicago

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