Talk:cleanup

I think that there is another sense of the word when used to mean something that needs to be cleaned up, whether it gets cleaned up or not. For example, when the supermarket announcer says "cleanup on aisle twelve", they are not announcing that a cleanup occurred, but that a mess requiring cleanup presently exists there. Am I off the deep end in this? bd2412 T 17:39, 7 May 2012 (UTC)


 * That's not a different sense: it still means an act of cleaning up. It's like a surgeon calling "scalpel!" to ask for one. Equinox ◑ 13:51, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

RFV discussion: September–October 2018
Rfv-sense: baseball sense, as a noun, as a subject of a sentence, object of a verb or preposition. The usage example "batting cleanup" certainly could be readily interpreted as showing adverbial use.

It is used attributively with nouns like man, batter, hitter, slugger, blaster; slot, spot, position; and batting, hitting, but it could be an adjective in that use. DCDuring (talk) 23:50, 23 September 2018 (UTC)


 * cited Kiwima (talk) 00:23, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 03:59, 1 October 2018 (UTC)