Usually means: Rise from sitting or lying.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word get up:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. get up: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. get up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. get-up, get-up, get up: Collins English Dictionary
  4. get up: Vocabulary.com
  5. get-up: Wordnik
  6. get-up, get (sb) up, get up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. get-up, get up: Wiktionary
  8. get-up: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. get-up: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Get-up, get-up, get up: Dictionary.com
  11. GET-UP, Get Up (A Cowboys Anthem), Get Up (Bryan Adams album), Get Up (Ciara song), Get Up (Mary Mary song), Get Up (Nate Dogg song), Get Up (R.E.M. song), Get Up (R3hab and Ciara song), Get Up (Rattle), Get Up (Richie Kotzen album), Get Up (Shinedown song), Get Up (Sleater-Kinney song), Get Up (korean drama), Get Up (song), Get Up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Get-up: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. get-up: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. get up: Rhymezone
  15. Get-up: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. Get-up, Get up: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  17. get up: Phrasal Verb Page
  18. get-up, get up: Free Dictionary
  19. get up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. get-up, get up: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. get up: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. get up: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. get up: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. get up: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. get up, get up, get up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See get_ups as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (get up)

verb:  (literally) To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb.
verb:  To rise from one's bed, usually upon waking up in order to begin one's day.
verb:  To move from a sitting or lying position to a standing position; to stand up.
verb:  To materialise; to grow stronger.
verb:  To bring together; to amass.
verb:  To gather or grow larger by accretion.
verb:  (sports) To go towards the attacking goal.
verb:  (UK, Australia, colloquial) To criticise.
verb:  (colloquial) To annoy.
verb:  To dress in a certain way, especially extravagantly.
verb:  (Australia, colloquial) To succeed; to win.
verb:  (slang) To have sex; to penetrate sexually; to have a sexual or romantic liaison.
verb:  (slang, African-American Vernacular) To leave prison.
verb:  (slang, US) To meet with or get to know (someone); to hang out with someone.
verb:  (slang, African-American Vernacular) To be excited about something; to act regarding something; to become cognizant of something.

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