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Clean up

verb

Put (things or places) in order. Synonyms: neaten, square away, straighten, straighten out, tidy, tidy up.

Make a big profit; often in a short period of time.

Dispose of.

Make oneself clean, presentable or neat.

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"Clean up" Quotes from Famous Books

... locomotive, with an irresistible desire for change; and was still the son of his old self: for if he had nothing to keep him at home, he said (slightly jerking his hat and his thumb towards the window of the room in which the old lady sat, as we stood talking in front of the house), he would clean up his musket, and be off to Texas to-morrow morning. He was one of the very many descendants of Cain proper to this continent, who seem destined from their birth to serve as pioneers in the great human army: who gladly go on from year to year extending its outposts, and leaving home after home ...

— American Notes for General Circulation • Charles Dickens

... horses here," he said. "Tex went after that gun, and I reckon he's got it. We'll clean up afoot." ...

— Jim Waring of Sonora-Town - Tang of Life • Knibbs, Henry Herbert

... "A gusher, I believe, is one of the best sort of oil wells. Why didn't your uncle clean up a fortune, to use ...

— Tom Swift and his Undersea Search - or, The Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic • Victor Appleton

... mussed up the floor, dying in here," Billy apologized weakly. "I was plumb obliged to clean up after him." He glanced somewhat shamefacedly at the floor. After all, it did not look quite like the one where Miss Bridger lived; in his heart Billy believed that was because he had no strip of carpet to spread before the table. He permitted ...

— The Long Shadow • B. M. Bower

... (May, 1848) the Tuileries have already been repaired, and M. Empis remarked to me this morning: "They are going to clean up and nothing of the damage done will be apparent." Neuilly and the Palais-Royal, however, have been devastated. The picture gallery of the Palais-Royal, a pretty poor one by the by, has practically been destroyed. Only ...

— The Memoirs of Victor Hugo • Victor Hugo

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