comb-out

1. 1.

   the act of removing tangles from you hair with a comb

   Synonymsteasing

   Broadercomb
2. 2.

   the act of carefully weeding out unwanted things or people

   “the department got a good comb-out”

   Broaderdisposal

Questions about comb-out

What does comb-out mean?

comb-out means "the act of removing tangles from you hair with a comb". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in comb-out?

comb-out has 2 syllables: com-b-out. The stress falls on "com".

What is another word for comb-out?

Close synonyms include teasing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is comb-out a common word?

comb-out is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.