n. 1. An act of removing all the dirt from a given set of objects. What this filthy room needs is an honest clean-up. 2. The elimination of pockets of resistance during warfare or a police raid. The FBI conducted a clean-up against the drug pushers in our district.
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Meaning of CLEAN-UP in English
American idioms English vocabulary. Английский словарь американских идиом. 2012