wash up

Meanings

Verb

• To clean the utensils, dishes etc. used in preparing and eating a meal.
• To wash one's hands and/or face, often around mealtimes.
• To carry (an object) to land.
• To be carried by water to land.
• To arrive in a place; to end up somewhere.

Noun

• The act by which something is washed.
• Something or somebody that is washed up; a has-been.
• A meeting to gauge the success or failure of an operation or war game.

Related

Similar words

• do the dishes, do the washing-up