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View synonyms for getup

getup

or get-up

[ get-uhp ]

noun

, Informal.
  1. costume; outfit:

    Everyone will stare at you if you wear that getup.

  2. arrangement or format; style:

    the getup of a new cookbook.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of getup1

First recorded in 1825–35; noun use of verb phrase get up
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Example Sentences

He was gonna join the fight, you know, really he was, got his ninja getup fitted and everything.

She was met with boos and shouts, as a man wearing a Revolutionary War getup yelled, “Let someone else speak!”

It was something of a shock to find that her colorful peasant getup was antiseptically sheathed in a white laboratory coat.

Couldn't tell that so much from her getup as from the Frenchy hat and boulevard whiskers he's sportin'.

Acting as a doorman was another figure, human size, clad in a similar getup.

The matter of his speech was excellent, its form, occasionally, as extravagant as his getup.

There was cheer in Naab's "Getup," now, and the horses quickened with it.

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