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
"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
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
What we're suffering from in this quarter's git-up-and-git.
From The Incomplete Amorist by Nesbit, E. (Edith)
Maybe he is kind of a roughneck, but you got to hand it to him; he's got more git-up-and-git than any fellow that ever hit this burg.
From Main Street by Lewis, Sinclair
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