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Meaning of get on up | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

Get up.
colloquial
To dance with abandon
colloquial

Examples

“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.””

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

“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)”

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

See also

get on with get one up on get one's get one's a into g get one's act together get one's affairs in order