cleanup - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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cleanup (countable and uncountable, plural cleanups)
- The act of cleaning or tidying something; the act of finishing something off.
- Hyponym: mop-up
- (baseball) Fourth in the batting order; a cleanup hitter.
Jones will be batting cleanup in tonight's game.
1994, Ronald A. Mayer, The 1937 Newark Bears: A Baseball Legend, →ISBN, page 27:
The starting lineup for Newark consisted of Johnny Neun leading off at first base; the number two hitter was catcher Norman Kies; batting third and playing second base was Andy Cohen; at cleanup was "The People's Cherce," Dixie Walker; George Selkirk was hitting fifth and playing right field; Bob Barrett was at third base and hitting sixth; Jess Hill was the number seven batter in left field; Red Rolfe batted eighth and played shortstop; and the right-hander, George Miner, was on the mound.
2000, Richard Ben Cramer, Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life, →ISBN, page 528:
There it was: McDougald at cleanup, and DiMaggio fifth.
2010, Kenneth Hogan, Batting 10th for the Yankees, →ISBN:
I had been getting hits off Jim Palmer and had a streak going and went from hitting 8th to 7th, to 6th, 5th, and then finally McKeon put me in at cleanup.
the act of cleaning or tidying
- Azerbaijani: təmizləmə, yığışdırma
- Catalan: neteja (ca) f
- Dutch: schoonmaak (nl) m
- Finnish: puhdistus (fi), siivous (fi)
- French: nettoyage (fr) m
- German: Aufräumen (de) n, Säubern n, Säuberung (de) f, Säuberungsaktion f
- Greek: καθαρισμός (el) m (katharismós)
- Hebrew: ניקוי m (niqui)
- Marathi: सफाई f (saphāī), साफसफाई (sāphasphāī)
- Portuguese: limpeza (pt) f
- Russian: убо́рка (ru) f (ubórka)
- Serbo-Croatian: čišćenje n, чишћење n
- Spanish: limpieza (es) f
- Turkish: temizleme (tr)
cleanup
- Misspelling of clean up.