git-up-and-git

[git-uhp-uhn-git]

noun

Informal.

1. get-up-and-go.

Example Sentences

Back in Arizona, now, a man with any git-up-and-git to him might—but, pshaw, this was not Arizona!

From Project Gutenberg

Harvey Greenleaf had luck, and has what our people know as “gumption,” and “git-up-and-git,” and Mrs. Greenleaf, a fair, ample person, is a born woman of business.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Time Magazine Archive

They spoke of his adored Boston as an old-fogy place with "no git-up-and-git."

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg