cleanup

n 1: (informal) a very large profit [syn: {killing}]

2: (baseball) the fourth position in the batting order (usually

filled by the best batter on the team) [syn: {cleanup

position}, {cleanup spot}]

3: the act of making something clean; "he gave his shoes a good

cleaning" [syn: {cleaning}, {cleansing}]

clean

1. Used of hardware or software designs, implies "elegance in

the small", that is, a design or implementation that may not

hold any surprises but does things in a way that is reasonably

intuitive and relatively easy to comprehend from the outside.

The antonym is "grungy" or {crufty}.

2. To remove unneeded or undesired files in a effort to reduce

clutter: "I'm cleaning up my account." "I cleaned up the

garbage and now have 100 Meg free on that partition."

[{Jargon File}]

(1994-12-12)