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get-up

[ get-uhp ]

get up

verb

  1. to wake and rise from one's bed or cause to wake and rise from bed
  2. intr to rise to one's feet; stand up
  3. also preposition to ascend or cause to ascend

    the old van couldn't get up the hill

  4. to mount or help to mount (a bicycle, horse, etc)
  5. to increase or cause to increase in strength

    the wind got up at noon

  6. informal.
    tr to dress (oneself) in a particular way, esp showily or elaborately
  7. informal.
    tr to devise or create

    to get up an entertainment for Christmas

  8. informal.
    tr to study or improve one's knowledge of

    I must get up my history

  9. informal.
    intrfoll byto to be involved in

    he's always getting up to mischief

  10. informal.
    intr to win, esp in a sporting event
“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

noun

  1. informal.
    a costume or outfit, esp one that is striking or bizarre
  2. 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
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Introduced by the actor Samuel L. Jackson in a red-white-and-blue Uncle Sam get-up, Lamar began the show crouched on a Buick Grand National, the car after which he titled his latest album.

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Photos published by People and New York Post show Williams’ glittery get-up and motorized scooter, which she personalized with luxury fashion accessories including a cup-holder seemingly wrapped in Louis Vuitton’s iconic brown monogram.

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There were costume changes, each get-up sparklier than the last, and there was a troupe of male and female dancers executing athletic choreography.

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But that hasn’t stopped the couple’s tradition of visiting Disneyland every Sunday in coordinated, handmade outfits, similar to their get-up at the D23 Disney convention in Anaheim this weekend.

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Blind and plagued by a debilitating autoimmune disease, she had a standard super-type get-up — a black unitard veined with lines that converge in a web — that was offset by a white-and-black hairdo that suggested she shared a stylist with Peter Parker’s editor J. Jonah Jameson.

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