cleans 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.
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
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.
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