clean-up

clean-up  {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.
Categories: noun
Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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