Usually means: Initiative, energy, and proactive enthusiasm.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word get-up-and-go:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. get-up-and-go: Merriam-Webster
  2. get-up-and-go: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. get-up-and-go: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. get-up-and-go, get-up-and-go: Collins English Dictionary
  5. get-up-and-go: Vocabulary.com
  6. get-up-and-go: Wiktionary
  7. get-up-and-go: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. get-up-and-go: Dictionary.com
  9. get-up-and-go: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Get-up-and-go: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. get-up-and-go: Rhymezone
  12. get-up-and-go: FreeDictionary.org
  13. get-up-and-go: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. get-up-and-go: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. get-up-and-go: Wordnik
  16. get-up-and-go: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

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  1. get-up-and-go: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  (informal, idiomatic) An enthusiastic and energetic drive or ambition.
▸ adjective:  (informal, idiomatic) Of an enthusiastic or energetic drive or ambition.

Similar:
energy, push, gumption, enthusiasm, vigour, bundle of energy, fire in the belly, head of steam, vim and vigour, eager beaver, more...

Opposite:
lethargy, apathy, laziness, indolence, sluggishness

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Similar:
energy, push, gumption, enthusiasm, vigour, bundle of energy, fire in the belly, head of steam, vim and vigour, eager beaver, more...

Opposite:
lethargy, apathy, laziness, indolence, sluggishness



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