get-up

[ get-uhp ]

noun

1. getup.
2. get-up-and-go.

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

noun

1. informal.
   a costume or outfit, esp one that is striking or bizarre
2. informal.
   the arrangement or production of a book, etc

Example Sentences

There were costume changes, each get-up sparklier than the last, and there was a troupe of male and female dancers executing athletic choreography.

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From New York Times

The whole get-up cost him 400 Canadian dollars.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Salon

Related Words

• awake
• awaken
• climb
• stand