get-up-and-get, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

get-up-and-get n.

also git-up-and-git

(US) energy.

1889		Farmer Americanisms 265/2: For a thing to have no git up and git about it is equivalent to saying that it is weak, vain, mean, slow, etc.
1908		L.W. Payne Jr ‘Word-List From East Alabama’ in DN III:iv 314: get-up-and-get, n. Energy, activity.
1910		B.L. Bowen ‘Word-List From Western New York’ in DN III:vi 441: get-up-and-get, n. phr. Energy; ability to hustle.
1911		‘Sing Sing No. 57,700’ My View on Books in N.Y. Times Mag. 30 Apr. 5/4: His ‘Honorable Peter Stwerling’ and ‘The Great K&N Train Robbery’ have plenty of git-up-and-git in them.
1950		J. Weidman Price Is Right 16: What I need is a dash of gumption, a dollop of git-up-and-git, a shot in the arm.