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get (sb) up

Phrasal Verb with get
 
 
/get/ verb (present participle getting, past tense got, past participle got, US gotten)

Definition

to wake up and get out of bed, or to make someone do this: I had to get up at five o'clock this morning.
(Definition of get (sb) up from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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