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gotten on up

gotten on up is the past participle of get on up.

Meaning of get on 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
  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

Questions about gotten on up

What is gotten on up the past participle of?
Gotten on up is the past participle of get on up.

Words near gotten on up in the dictionary

  1. gotten on someone's nerves
  2. gotten on someone's wrong side
  3. gotten on the end of
  4. gotten on the stick
  5. gotten on to
  6. gotten on up
  7. gotten on with
  8. gotten one over on
  9. gotten one up on
  10. gotten one's
  11. gotten one's a into g

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gotten on up (page history and authors); get on up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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