git-up-and-git
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Joe is a git-up-and-git, self-made, authentic small-town man.
From Time Magazine Archive
Back in Arizona, now, a man with any git-up-and-git to him might—but, pshaw, this was not Arizona!
From Bat Wing Bowles by Coolidge, Dane
They spoke of his adored Boston as an old-fogy place with "no git-up-and-git."
From In a Little Town by Hughes, Rupert
"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 Raine, William MacLeod
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 Lewis, Sinclair
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