clean up

Verb

clean up (third-person singular simple present cleans up, present participle cleaning up, simple past and past participle cleaned up)

1. (transitive) To make an area or a thing clean; to pick up a mess; to tidy.
   • Clean up your room.
   • Rhos station had been cleaned up for the occasion, and its single platform was gay with flags.1946 May and June, “Notes and News: Special Services for the Welsh National Eisteddfod”, in Railway Magazine, page 188
2. (colloquial, idiomatic, intransitive) 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.
   • He sure cleans up nice.

   Synonyms:

   scrub up

3. (idiomatic, transitive) To make something less corrupt or unseemly.
   • clean up one's act
   • Gays in Providence have suggested that the raid on the Club Baths was a political action. There is some belief that the newly re-elected Cianci administration wants to prove that it is "out to clean up the city." During the election campaign, the Cianci administration was attacked by opponents as...1978 December 16, Jim Marko, “Providence Police Raid Downtown Baths”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 21, page 1
4. (idiomatic, intransitive) To make a large profit; to win by a large margin, or to win a large amount, especially in gambling. Also clean house.
   • Man, he sure cleaned up last night at the blackjack table.
   • The investors cleaned up when the stock hit the roof last year.
5. To intervene in a fight between two players at low health and easily kill both of them or the winner.
   • The key here is to stop third partying and start cleaning up. Running to the first bullets you hear will only guarantee one thing, a fight. […] Cleaning up means only swooping in for the free kills. Is a fight over? Does Octane has his hands in a deathbox? That is when you take the zipline and...2020 June 23, Jackson Haime, “Becoming a Legend: 4 Easy Ways to Climb in Apex Legends”, in Medium