getup
noun
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noun
Etymology: From get + up.
- Clothes, costume or outfit, especially one that is ostentatious or otherwise unusual.
“When near the buildings I met a white man, in such an unexpected elegance of get–up that in the first moment I took him for a sort of vision.”
“The Schnitzelbank Band, each member attired in an odd getup, received many comments for the manner in which the men marched.”
- A fight or altercation.
“"A bully. Picked on fellows. He loved to fight. But I never saw him in a getup with a fellow his own size."”
- Layout and production style, as of a magazine.
- Alternative form of get-up-and-go.