clean up
phrasal verbclean up
- (informal) to win or make a lot of money
- This film should clean up at the box office.
clean (yourself) up
- (informal) to make yourself clean, usually by washing
- I need to change and clean up.
- Go and clean yourself up.
- You'd better get cleaned up.
clean up | clean something up
- to remove dirt, etc. from somewhere
- He always expected other people to clean up after him (= when he had made the place dirty or untidy).
- Who's going to clean up this mess?
- to clean up beaches after an oil spillage
- a commitment to clean up the environment
- It took me the rest of the day to clean (the place) up.
clean something up