getup noun3 •(informal) Clothes, costume or outfit, especially one that is ostentatious or otherwise unusual.When near the buildings I met a white man, in such an unexpected elegance of get–up that in the first moment I took him for a sort of vision. — 1899 •Layout and production style, as of a magazine. •(informal) A fight or altercation."A bully. Picked on fellows. He loved to fight. But I never saw him in a getup with a fellow his own size." — 2002 formsgetups