1. the act of removing tangles from you hair with a comb; [syn: comb-out, teasing]
2. the act of carefully weeding out unwanted things or people; - Example: "the department got a good comb-out"
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
comb-out
n 1: the act of removing tangles from you hair with a comb [syn:
comb-out, teasing]
2: the act of carefully weeding out unwanted things or people;
"the department got a good comb-out"