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dress-up

[ dres-uhp ]

adjective

  1. being an occasion, situation, etc., for which one must be somewhat formally well-dressed:

    the first dress-up dance of the season.



noun

  1. Informal. Usually dress-ups.
    1. a person's best clothes:

      Wear your dress-ups for the reception.

    2. accessories or other added features:

      a car with custom dress-ups.

dress up

verb

  1. to attire (oneself or another) in one's best clothes
  2. to put fancy dress, disguise, etc, on (oneself or another), as in children's games

    let's dress up as ghosts!

  3. tr to improve the appearance or impression of

    it's no good trying to dress up the facts

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of dress-up1

First recorded in 1665–75; noun, adj. use of verb phrase dress up
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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