Definition of "clean up" []

• To make an area or a thing clean; to pick up a mess; to tidy. (verb)
• To become clean, handsome, smart in appearance, e.g. for a special occasion, especially when it is out of character to be seen as such. (verb)
• To make a large profit; to win by a large margin, or to win a large amount, especially in gambling. Also clean house. (verb)

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• "The king also left behind his companion Leonnatus to await the arrival of the fleet and clean up any remaining resistance in the area."
• "In fact, MacLeish and Eliot and Allen Tate engineered a special new poetry prize for him, the Bollingen Prize, to clean up his image."
• "Gardella, a wry, shorts-sporting, suntanned, and bulldogish fifty-one-year-old, volunteered to use his expertise in environmental chemistry and the effects of exposure to toxins to help residents pressure the DEC to find funds to clean up East Ferry."