cleanup

[ kleen-uhp ]

/ ˈklinˌʌp /

the act or process of cleaning up.

Slang. a very large profit: The company made a real cleanup on their new invention.

Baseball.

the fourth position in the batting order: Our best home-run hitter is batting cleanup.
the player who bats in this position.

Origin of cleanup

1865–70, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase clean up

The cleanup has cost $1 billion so far, and continues today.

The Pipeline From Hell: There’s No Good Reason to Build Keystone XL |Jack Holmes |November 15, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Unlike game day, there are no accidents or “puppy fouls” on the field today and cleanup time is minimal.

‘The Puppy Bowl’: The Super Bowl’s Fiercest Rival |Lori-Lee Emshey |February 2, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Lottie finally came to the door, and McCauley saw the cleanup in progress.

The Strange and Mysterious Death of Mrs. Jerry Lee Lewis |Richard Ben Cramer |January 11, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Thus far, BP has paid $14 billion in cleanup costs and $11 billion in claims.

Three Years After Gulf Oil Spill, Money Continues to Flow to Region |Filipa Ioannou |July 29, 2013 |DAILY BEAST

We pollute, but our feeble efforts at cleanup have been largely unsuccessful.

Beware at the Beach, the Jellyfish Rule the Seas and It’s Our Fault |Lisa-ann Gershwin |June 20, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
A forty thousand cleanup, Jack, just for a bit of judicious nerve!

An Oregon Girl |Alfred Ernest Rice
We could have made a cleanup and gone into Central with a record that would make their eyes pop out.

You Too Can Be A Millionaire |Noel Miller Loomis
I believe that I will go out tomorrow and go to town and phone Father that he had better make a cleanup here at the camp.

The Ranger Boys Outwit the Timber Thieves |Claude A. Labelle
These were merely a set-off, I presume, to the chunks of gold he showed us (the size of a fist), each being a week's "cleanup."

Overland Tales |Josephine Clifford
His cleanup finished, Frosty sat down with his tail curled behind him and stared at the youth with unreadable feline eyes.

Swamp Cat |James Arthur Kjelgaard