- got⇄expr. got up, artificially produced, elaborated, or adorned for effect or to deceive.
Ex. It's hard for us to imagine strontium 90--the name has a got-up sound, like something out of science fiction (New Yorker). - got⇄got, verb.
a past tense and a past participle of get.
Ex. We got the letter yesterday. We had got tired of waiting for it.