ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Dress-up

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Dress-up is a noun meaning (informal) A child's game of putting on different clothes and pretending to be different people.

Meaning

(informal) A child's game of putting on different clothes and pretending to be different people.

Example Sentences

One day, I happened to catch a glimpse of my daughter Annie, age three, playing dress-up with her pals at the family day care program she attends twice a week. Each child had a hat on his or her head and was pretending to be a circus clown.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include costumer, pretendress, ageplay, babydoll, sexplay, cosplay.

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