CLUE IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clue in mean? 

• CLUE IN (verb)
  The verb CLUE IN has 1 sense:

1. provide someone with a clue

  Familiarity information: CLUE IN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLUE IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provide someone with a clue

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

Can you clue me in?

Hypernyms (to "clue in" is one way to...):

hint; suggest (drop a hint; intimate by a hint)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

We had no clue in the Acton affair.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No doubt the object of our journey was to catch him in the very act, and I could not but admire the cunning with which my friend had inserted a wrong clue in the evening paper, so as to give the fellow the idea that he could continue his scheme with impunity.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Absolutely no clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)