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Clean up

verb

Put (things or places) in order. Synonyms: neaten, square away, straighten, straighten out, tidy, tidy up.

Make a big profit; often in a short period of time.

Dispose of.

Make oneself clean, presentable or neat.

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"Clean up" Quotes from Famous Books

... observations and returned to her. "First, I'll tell you something else, something that nobody in the neighborhood knows but you and Jim Yeager. I belong to the ranger force. Lieutenant O'Connor sent me here to clean up this rustling that has been going on ...

— Mavericks • William MacLeod Raine

... young man hurried back to his hotel to clean up, he was heartsick, remembering the many, many months of pleasant companionship with those boys. Especially Dick Trowbridge, who had been his roommate and special chum all through cadet school, and ...

— Man of Many Minds • E. Everett Evans

... seen what happened to Dad, trying to murder his pard," he admonished. "Hope it'll be a warning to you. I'm a peaceful man. I got to have law and order. Cochise ripped loose with his bunch. You seen how I smashed his play. 'Fore night my Navahos'll clean up ...

— Bloom of Cactus • Robert Ames Bennet

... didn't go agin the proper shapin' of things arterwards. Come, Bill, let's stir round lively, and git the shanty in shape a leetle, and some vict'als on the table afore she comes. Yis, git out your axe, and slash into that dead beech at the corner of the cabin, while I sorter clean up inside. A fire is the fust thing on sech a mornin' as this; so scurry round, Bill, and bring in the wood as ef ye was a good deal in 'arnest, and do ye cut to the measure of the fireplace, and don't waste yer time in shortenin' it, fur ...

— Holiday Tales - Christmas in the Adirondacks • W. H. H. Murray

... gold mines, and you were not made for this country,' he said. 'What would you say to going back East if I showed you the chance there to clean up more money than you'll ever see out here? I have been thinking about you, and I know the place ...

— The Desert Valley • Jackson Gregory

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