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dress-up
[ dres-uhp ]
adjective
- being an occasion, situation, etc., for which one must be somewhat formally well-dressed:
the first dress-up dance of the season.
noun
- Informal. Usually dress-ups.
- a person's best clothes:
Wear your dress-ups for the reception.
- accessories or other added features:
a car with custom dress-ups.
dress up
verb
- to attire (oneself or another) in one's best clothes
- to put fancy dress, disguise, etc, on (oneself or another), as in children's games
let's dress up as ghosts!
- tr to improve the appearance or impression of
it's no good trying to dress up the facts
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of dress-up1
Example Sentences
She lists a few things — playing dress-up with her sister, negotiating with her father, and learning how to manipulate him to get what she wanted.
The resilience of these “based on a true story†series remains intact because so many of these fraudsters resemble the “Goop†founder, and got away with playing dress-up as part of the 1%.
It’s fun to channel personal self-expression through hair, says Smith, who adds that rotating hair colors feels like a mix of playing dress-up and sporting a visible mood ring atop his head.
As Gary, a nerdy professor who finds his calling pretending to be a contract killer, Powell gets to do so many things in this movie — play a series of elaborate games of dress-up, be the romantic lead and depict a man duty-bound to practice what he teaches and show that humans can change.
The researchers randomly assigned 30 parent-child pairs either to a "big learning opportunity" condition, in which the parents were informed that children can learn key lifelong skills from putting on clothes, or to a control group where parents were told that dress-up activities helped children engage with the museum.
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