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getup

noun

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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From get + up.

  1. 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.

  2. 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."

  3. Layout and production style, as of a magazine.
  4. Alternative form of get-up-and-go.
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