cleaned up
cleaned up is the simple past and past participle of clean up.
Meaning of clean up
Verb
clean up (third-person singular simple present cleans up, present participle cleaning up, simple past and past participle cleaned up)
- To make an area or a thing clean; to pick up a mess; to tidy.
- Clean up your room.
- 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
- To make something less corrupt or unseemly.
- clean up one's act
- 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.
- 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
Questions about cleaned up
- What is cleaned up the simple past and past participle of?
- Cleaned up is the simple past and past participle of clean up.
Words near cleaned up in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: cleaned up (page history and authors); clean up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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