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clean up

verb
  1. To make an area or a thing clean; to pick up a mess; to tidy. (transitive) · Clean up your room.
  2. 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. (colloquial, intransitive) · He sure cleans up nice.
  3. To make something less corrupt or unseemly. (transitive) · clean up one's act
  4. To make a large profit; to win by a large margin, or to win a large amount, especially in gambling. Also clean house. (intransitive) · Man, he sure cleaned up last night at the blackjack table.· The investors cleaned up when the stock hit the roof last year.
  5. To intervene in a fight between two players at low health and easily kill both of them or the winner.
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