get on up

present singular third person gets on up · participle present getting on up · past got on up · UK participle past got on up · US participle past gotten on up

1. colloquialGet up.

   1925, William Faulkner, “Sunset”, reprinted in New Orleans Sketches, University Press of Mississippi (2002), →ISBN, page 77, “Get on up yonder and get a ticket, if you want to ride.”

   1 more example

   All morning I tried to get on up where the tanks were [...].

   1943, Ernie Pyle, Here is Your War, page 167

2. colloquialTo 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