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get-up
[ get-uhp ]
get up
verb
- to wake and rise from one's bed or cause to wake and rise from bed
- intr to rise to one's feet; stand up
- also preposition to ascend or cause to ascend
the old van couldn't get up the hill
- to mount or help to mount (a bicycle, horse, etc)
- to increase or cause to increase in strength
the wind got up at noon
- informal.tr to dress (oneself) in a particular way, esp showily or elaborately
- informal.tr to devise or create
to get up an entertainment for Christmas
- informal.tr to study or improve one's knowledge of
I must get up my history
- informal.intrfoll byto to be involved in
he's always getting up to mischief
- informal.intr to win, esp in a sporting event
noun
- informal.a costume or outfit, esp one that is striking or bizarre
- informal.the arrangement or production of a book, etc
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.
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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