Usually means: Organize and tidy physical space.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. straighten up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. straighten up: Merriam-Webster
  3. straighten up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. straighten up: Collins English Dictionary
  5. straighten up: Vocabulary.com
  6. straighten up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. straighten up: Wiktionary
  8. straighten up: Dictionary.com
  9. straighten up: Rhymezone
  10. straighten up: FreeDictionary.org
  11. straighten up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. straighten up: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. straighten up: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. straighten up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. straighten up: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (straighten up)

verb:  (intransitive) To become straight, or straighter.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To steer straight.
verb:  (intransitive) To sit up straight, to stop hunching.
verb:  (transitive) To deal with; to put in order.
verb:  (transitive) To tidy; to tidy up.
verb:  (transitive) To clarify.
verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic) To start living a reformed life; to adopt a more honest and respectable course of behavior.

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