Usually means: Clean oneself or something else.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word wash up:

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

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. wash up: Legal dictionary
  2. wash up: Financial dictionary

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

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wash up: Idioms

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

(Note: See wash_ups as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (wash up)

verb:  (British, ambitransitive) To clean the utensils, dishes etc. used in preparing and eating a meal.
verb:  (US, intransitive) To wash one's hands or face, often around mealtimes.
verb:  (transitive, of water) To carry (an object) to land.
verb:  (intransitive) To be carried by water to land.
verb:  (intransitive, by extension) To arrive in a place; to end up somewhere.
verb:  (slang, transitive, African-American Vernacular) To beat up (someone).

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