Crossword clues for get-up
The Collaborative International Dictionary
getup \get"up\, get-up \get"-up\, n.
General composition or structure; manner in which the parts of a thing are combined; arrangement; format; make-up; style of dress, etc. [Colloq.]
--H. Kingsley.-
Specifically: A set of clothing (with accessories); as, what are you doing in that getup?; -- often used with implied disapproval or scorn. [informal] [WordNet sense 1]
Syn: outfit, rig.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (alternative spelling of getup English) 2 (alternative form of get-up-and-go English)
Usage examples of "get-up".
Between them Doni Madan lounged on foam-rubber cushions wearing a black-and-green check bikini, an incongruous get-up for an interpreter.
She wore a sort of arty get-up of multi-coloured shirt, skirt with fringed hem and pocket, low-heeled shoes, and wooden beads.
He found himself thinking that the whole arty get-up seemed oddly at variance with the way she was acting.
She was wearing her arty get-up, but had discarded the wooden beads in favour of a brooch consisting of a wooden letter M.
Barrymore hired a youth to guard the automobile and the dog while we went in, strange figures for such a place, in our motoring get-up.
He looked like a harmless old buffer, except for the Francis of Assisi get-up, but years of association with the brotherhood of the road had given Rudy an instinctive caution of anybody who was armed, no matter how harmless he looked.
Though he had no apparent limp, he affected a walkingstick as odd as the rest of his get-up: a three-foot post of white ash, somewhat stouter than a pick-shaft, it had what appeared to be folding lenses and other gadgetry attached here and there along its length, which was adorned with rude carvings (both intaglio and low-relief) of winged lingams, shelah-na-gigs, buckhorns, and domestic bunch-grapes.
I often affected a disguise in those days, even when I was not engaged in business, and the dress and get-up of a respectable commissionnaire was a favourite one with me.
Slipping into the Ted role had been a relief, and when he drove up to the Camarillo gate the guard had double-taked his get-up and New York plates and openly challenged him as a cop, checking his ID and badge, calling West Hollywood Station to get the okay.
At the Outing we've got a bunch of real human fellows, and the finest lot of little women in town—just as good at joshing as the men—but at the Tonawanda there's nothing but these would-be's in New York get-ups, drinking tea!
In spite of her get-up she looked as if she would have a hall bedroom accent.