clean

clean, neat

adjective Rare #30,723
clean, neat Informal; borrowed from English, often used to mean “really clean/neat.”
FR: Après le ménage, l’appartement est clean.
EN: After cleaning, the apartment is clean.

Clean, Mr. Clean sortait d'un taudis du Bronx.

Clean, Mr. Clean was coming out of a slum in the Bronx.

— Apocalypse Now (1979)

Je suis clean.

I'm clean.

On est clean!

We're clean!

— Cold Storage (2026)

Que la bouffe soit clean.

The food should be clean.

— Fight Club (1999)

Il est clean.

He is clean.

Je suis clean!

I'm clean!

— Les Affranchis (1990)

Je veux la jouer en étant le plus clean possible.

I want to play it as cleanly as possible.

— Douleur et gloire (2019)

Elle est clean.

She is clean.

On est clean, on est pas infectés!

We're clean, we're not infected!

— Cold Storage (2026)