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get on up

get on up verb: get up.

Verb

get on up (third-person singular simple present gets on up, present participle getting on up, simple past got on up, past participle (UK) got on up or (US) gotten on up)

  1. (colloquial) Get up.
    • “Get on up yonder and get a ticket, if you want to ride.”1925, William Faulkner, “Sunset”, reprinted in New Orleans Sketches, University Press of Mississippi (2002), →ISBN, page 77
    • All morning I tried to get on up where the tanks were [...].1943, Ernie Pyle, Here is Your War, page 167
  2. (colloquial) To dance with abandon
    • So get on up (get on up) / On the floor (get on up) / Get on up, now (get on up) / And dance some more (get on up)1967, The Esquires, Get On Up (song)
    Synonyms:
    get down

Synonyms of get on up

Forms of get on up

third-person singular presentgets on up
present participlegetting on up
pastgot on up
past participle UKgot on up
past participle USgotten on up

Questions about get on up

What does get on up mean?
Get on up means get up.
What part of speech is get on up?
Get on up is a verb.
What is the past tense of get on up?
The past tense of get on up is got on up.

Words near get on up in the dictionary

  1. get on someone's wick
  2. get on someone's wrong side
  3. get on the end of
  4. get on the stick
  5. get on to
  6. get on up
  7. get on with
  8. get on with you
  9. get one over on
  10. get one up on
  11. get one's

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