tidy up

• tidy-up

tidy up (third-person singular simple present tidies up, present participle tidying up, simple past and past participle tidied up)

1. To make clean, to make satisfactorily neat.
   • 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 7:

     When the long, hot journey drew to its end and the train slowed down for the last time, there was a stir in Jessamy’s carriage. People began to shake crumbs from their laps and tidy themselves up a little.

• Usually used to describe the straightening-out of a small room or small space.