getup

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get +‎ up

getup (plural getups)

1. (chiefly US, informal) Clothes, costume or outfit, especially one that is ostentatious or otherwise unusual.
   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:

     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.

   • 1917 October 28, “1,200 Reading Firemen March”, in Reading Eagle‎, Pennsylvania, USA, page 4:

     The Schnitzelbank Band, each member attired in an odd getup, received many comments for the manner in which the men marched.

   • 1930, Edna Ferber, Cimarron, page 24:

     Oh, I forgot. She had on a get-up that took the attention of anyone that saw her, even in that crazy mob. The better to cut the wind, she had shortened sail and wore a short skirt, black tights, and a skullcap.

   • 2009 June 8, “Worried They Will Miss the War: Inside the Mind of West Point's Class of 2009”, in Newsweek:

     [A] parade of costumed cadets trots by: a shark costume, an Uncle Sam getup and three young men in form-fitting bodysuits.

2. (informal) A fight or altercation.
   • 2002 January 28, Andrea Sachs, “Caricature Builder”, in Time:

     "A bully. Picked on fellows. He loved to fight. But I never saw him in a getup with a fellow his own size."

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

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