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View synonyms for get-up

get-up

[ get-uhp ]

get up

verb

  1. to wake and rise from one's bed or cause to wake and rise from bed
  2. intr to rise to one's feet; stand up
  3. also preposition to ascend or cause to ascend

    the old van couldn't get up the hill

  4. to mount or help to mount (a bicycle, horse, etc)
  5. to increase or cause to increase in strength

    the wind got up at noon

  6. informal.
    tr to dress (oneself) in a particular way, esp showily or elaborately
  7. informal.
    tr to devise or create

    to get up an entertainment for Christmas

  8. informal.
    tr to study or improve one's knowledge of

    I must get up my history

  9. informal.
    intrfoll byto to be involved in

    he's always getting up to mischief

  10. informal.
    intr to win, esp in a sporting event
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. informal.
    a costume or outfit, esp one that is striking or bizarre
  2. informal.
    the arrangement or production of a book, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

But that hasn’t stopped the couple’s tradition of visiting Disneyland every Sunday in coordinated, handmade outfits, similar to their get-up at the D23 Disney convention in Anaheim this weekend.

Blind and plagued by a debilitating autoimmune disease, she had a standard super-type get-up — a black unitard veined with lines that converge in a web — that was offset by a white-and-black hairdo that suggested she shared a stylist with Peter Parker’s editor J. Jonah Jameson.

The whole get-up cost him 400 Canadian dollars.

There's Jennifer Aniston's sparkly get-up, which she wore on the 2005 Oscars red carpet after her split with Brad Pitt.

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Colin Robinson installs booby traps throughout the house, dons a Rambo-esque get-up and screams about making his last stand.

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