spring-clean

See also: spring clean

English

Etymology

Back-formation from spring-cleaning.

Verb

spring-clean (third-person singular simple present spring-cleans, present participle spring-cleaning, simple past and past participle spring-cleaned)

  1. (transitive) To carry out spring-cleaning on (a room, a house, etc).
  2. (intransitive) To engage in spring-cleaning.

Derived terms
  • spring-cleaner
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