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English citations of clean up

  1. To make an area or a thing clean; to pick up a mess.
    • 1978 August 19, Tim Cwiek, Karen DeCrow, “Interview: Former NOW President DeCrow Talks About Gay Issues”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 5, page 7:

      A lot of members of the gay community [] are not political. They feel somehow it's not relevant to their lives. I would say it's very relevant, just like the women need ERA. You can't clean up your own heads living in a society that's sexist and you can't clean up your own self-hate in a society and be self-actualized as a gay person when the laws are all against you.