To spot clean is to clean only the marked part of something. Spot clean the sleeve, spot clean rather than wash.
It saves washing a whole garment for one mark and is what a label means by the words. To spot clean properly means working from the outside of the mark inwards.
1phrasespot cleanTo clean only the marked part of something.
“The label said spot clean only, so the whole coat never went in water.”
spot clean is a phrase.
Practised in Cleaning & Housework