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US
/ˈkɫiˌnəp/
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[ UK /klˈiːnʌp/ ]
[ UK /klˈiːnʌp/ ]
NOUN
- a very large profit
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the act of making something clean
he gave his shoes a good cleaning - (baseball) the fourth position in the batting order (usually filled by the best batter on the team)
How To Use cleanup In A Sentence
- At the end of the day, you can come back here for cleanup, or there's cold cream in your trailer. SWIMMING TO CATALINA
- The massive cleanup in New Orleans includes some unpleasant, some might say downright disgusting, jobs.
- And directly afterwards he went to his favorite hooker and crapped his diapers for a little ‘Mommy Cleanup’. Think Progress » Vitter receives standing ovation at Southern Republican Leadership Conference.
- While the article vaunts the fact that men spend nearly 3.5 hours a week more on childcare now than they did in 1985, it glosses over the fact that women's childcare load has also increased - -and says nothing about the minuscule increases in men's contribution to housework and food preparation/cleanup. Joan Williams: Chore Wars and the Value of Work
- This year, for the first time, the local Girl Scout troops will hand out a special badge for participation in Waterway Cleanup.
- To eliminate the need for heroic final cleanups, it is expected that the degree of purity of intermediates will increase progressively, from the first intermediate on to the drug substance itself.
- Cleanup crews watched in horror as otters scratched out their own eyes to rid them of oil.
- One of Bucket's favorite Taglian lieutenants, stuck with the name Lhopal Pete to distinguish him from a sergeant everybody called Khusavir Pete (both "Petes" deriving from the center syllable of an eleventeen-syllable Gunni godname), came to tell his leader he would need to bring up a lot more water if the men were going to take care of all the cleanup I wanted them to do while I explored beyond the Shadowgate. She Is The Darkness
- Take a toothbrush to work for a quick after-lunch cleanup, or chew sugarless gum between meals; some brands contain the artificial sweetener xylitol, which inhibits bacteria growth.
- He is an excellent cleanup hitter who makes contact and delivers in the clutch.