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got-up

got-up adjective: of clothing, styled extravagantly.

Adjective

got-up (comparative more got-up, superlative most got-up)

  1. Of clothing, styled extravagantly.
    • His starched collars and got-up shirt-fronts were achievements of character.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, page 207

Forms of got-up

comparativemore got-up
superlativemost got-up

Origin of got-up

From get up (“to dress [extravagantly]”).

Questions about got-up

What does got-up mean?
Got-up means of clothing, styled extravagantly.
What part of speech is got-up?
Got-up is an adjective.

Words near got-up in the dictionary

  1. got with it
  2. got with the program
  3. got with the times
  4. got work done
  5. got wrong
  6. got-up
  7. Gotama
  8. Gotarzes
  9. gotaway
  10. gotaways
  11. Gotay

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