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cleanup

[kleen-uhp] Origin

clean·up

[kleen-uhp]
noun
1.
the act or process of cleaning up.
2.
Slang. a very large profit: The company made a real cleanup on their new invention.
3.
Baseball.
a.
the fourth position in the batting order: Our best home-run hitter is batting cleanup.
b.
the player who bats in this position.

Origin:
1865–70, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase clean up
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Cleanup is always a great word to know.
So is jostle. Does it mean:
to pick the pocket of or hassle the body of
a clever, unscrupulous person
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Word Origin & History

cleanup
1889, "act of cleaning up," from clean + up. Meaning "a profit" is recorded from 1878. Verbal phrase clean up "make a large profit" is from 1929.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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