getup
or get-up
costume; outfit: Everyone will stare at you if you wear that getup.
arrangement or format; style: the getup of a new cookbook.
Origin of getup
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How to use getup in a sentence
My grandmother boiled my grandfather’s entire get-up in a big vat once he was done.
Buy Wireless Charging Coffe Table With Bluetooth Speaker at Amazon, $95It's the perfect time to upgrade your heating getup, and this heated fireplace stove is the perfect, budget-friendly solution.
You Definitely Need to Know About Amazon’s Semi-Secret Online Outlet | Mia Maguire | October 30, 2021 | The Daily BeastHe 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!”
CPAC Panel on Transcending Racist Label Breaks Down Into Verbal Chaos | Caitlin Dickson | March 16, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIt was something of a shock to find that her colorful peasant getup was antiseptically sheathed in a white laboratory coat.
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Couldn't tell that so much from her getup as from the Frenchy hat and boulevard whiskers he's sportin'.
Shorty McCabe on the Job | Sewell FordActing as a doorman was another figure, human size, clad in a similar getup.
The Scarlet Lake Mystery | Harold Leland GoodwinThe 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.
The Heritage of the Desert | Zane Grey
British Dictionary definitions for get up
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
(tr) informal to dress (oneself) in a particular way, esp showily or elaborately
(tr) informal to devise or create: to get up an entertainment for Christmas
(tr) informal to study or improve one's knowledge of: I must get up my history
(intr foll by to) informal to be involved in: he's always getting up to mischief
(intr) Australian informal to win, esp in a sporting event
informal a costume or outfit, esp one that is striking or bizarre
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
Other Idioms and Phrases with getup
Arise from bed; also, sit or stand up. For example, Once I get up and have coffee, I'm ready to work. One of Irving Berlin's earliest hit songs was “Oh! How I hate to Get Up in the Morning” (1918). [Mid-1300s]
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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