Usually means: Starting anew, no previous marks.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word clean slate:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. clean slate: Merriam-Webster
  2. clean slate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. clean slate: Collins English Dictionary
  4. clean slate: Vocabulary.com
  5. clean slate: Wiktionary
  6. clean slate: Dictionary.com
  7. Clean Slate, Clean slate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. clean slate: Rhymezone
  9. clean slate: FreeDictionary.org
  10. clean slate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. clean slate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clean slate: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See clean_slates as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (clean slate)

noun:  (nautical) A slate on which the courses steered by a ship (and distances run) were recorded, but have been wiped clean after being entered in the log at the end of a watch.
noun:  (by extension) A fresh start.

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