spring-clean

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English

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Etymology

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Back-formation from spring-cleaning.

Verb

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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

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