cleanup

• clean-up

Deverbal from clean up.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkliːnʌp/, [ˈkʰliːˌnʌp]

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iːnʌp

cleanup (countable and uncountable, plural cleanups)

1. The act of cleaning or tidying something; the act of finishing something off.

   Hyponym: mop-up

2. (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.

• cleanup hitter
• cleanup man
• cleanup on aisle

• clean up

cleanup

1. Misspelling of clean up.

• unplace