Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to harass, to target for unkindness, to tease.

1879		‘Autobiog. of a Thief’ in Macmillan’s Mag. (London) XL 501: ‘I shall set about (beat) you myself.’ ‘What for? I have done nothing. Do you want to get it up for me?’.
1958		(con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 125: If they got it up for me too much, I’d carve them up.

2. to provoke.

1987

(con. 1920s) L. Redmond Emerald Square 61: Ernie and I were good scrappers and about the same size, so we respected each other, carefully avoiding a fight, although the rest of the class were always ‘gettin’ it up for us’.

3. to concoct evidence against, to frame.

1956

‘Charles Raven’ Und. Nights 24: The bogies had been after her for years, but she was too well covered. So they got it up for her.