git-up-and-git

American  

[git-uhp-uhn-git] / ˈgɪtˌʌp ənˈgɪt /

noun

Informal.

1. get-up-and-go.

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Example Sentences

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git-up-and-git

Joe is a git-up-and-git, self-made, authentic small-town man.

From Time Magazine Archive

What we're suffering from in this quarter's git-up-and-git.

From The Incomplete Amorist by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Son, I've learned this in my life—and I've done quite some hiking at that, even if I didn't have the book-l'arnin' and the git-up-and-git to make anything out of my experience.

From The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Sinclair Lewis

Take even, statesmanship, and wit, And ginerel git-up-and-git, Old Terry Hut is sound clean through—!

From Afterwhiles by James Whitcomb Riley

"She ain't so great as Douglas on ore or as Phoenix on lungers, but when it comes, to the git-up-and-git hustle, she's there rounding up the trade from early morn till dine."

From Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine

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