Usually means: Remove dirt, organize, make tidy.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word clean up:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. clean up: Merriam-Webster
  2. clean up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. clean up: Collins English Dictionary
  4. clean up: Vocabulary.com
  5. Clean-Up, Clean-up, clean-up: Wordnik
  6. clean-up, clean (sb/sth) up, clean (sth) up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. clean-up, clean up: Wiktionary
  8. CLEAN-UP, clean up: Dictionary.com
  9. Clean-up, Clean up, The Clean Up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. clean up: Rhymezone
  11. clean up: FreeDictionary.org
  12. clean-up, clean up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. clean up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. clean up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Clean-up, clean up: Legal dictionary
  4. Clean-up, Clean up: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clean up: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clean up: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CLEAN-UP: Acronym Finder
  2. clean up: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. clean up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Clean-up, clean up, the clean up: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See clean_ups as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (clean up)

verb:  (transitive) To make an area or a thing clean; to pick up a mess; to tidy.
verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic, colloquial) 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:  (transitive, idiomatic) To make something less corrupt or unseemly.
verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic) To make a large profit; to win by a large margin, or to win a large amount, especially in gambling. Also clean house.
verb:  (video games) To intervene in a fight between two players at low health and easily kill both of them or the winner.
noun:  Misspelling of cleanup. [The act of cleaning or tidying something; the act of finishing something off.]

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