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get-up-and-go definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: enterprising or ambitious drive; "Europeans often laugh at American energy" [syn: energy, push, get-up-and-go]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1906 energy, drive

Moby Thesaurus

adventuresomeness, adventurousness, aggression, aggressiveness, ambitiousness, bang, dash, drive, dynamism, enterprise, enterprisingness, fire, force, forcefulness, get-up-and-get, getup, ginger, go, go-ahead, go-getting, go-to-itiveness, gumption, hustle, initiative, kick, pep, pepper, piss and vinegar, pizzazz, poop, punch, push, pushfulness, pushiness, pushingness, snap, spirit, spunk, starch, thrust, up-and-comingness, venturesomeness, venturousness, verve, vim, zing, zip