Dictionary

dress out en · VERB

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To change one's clothes to prepare for outdoors activities, such as physical education; to be wearing clothes appropriate for such activities.
   • I would rather have the mumps than dress out for gym. I 2014, Angela Medearis, Skin Deep and Other Teenage Reflections:
2. (transitive) To dress and equip (staff or patients) in preparation for leaving the hospital.
   • Proper Dress-out. 1. Radiological emergency response team members dressed-out in waterproof gowns and other standard surgical attire. 2. Cuffs and inner gloves are taped for contamination control purposes. 1984, Robert C. Ricks, Hospital Emergency Department Management of Radiation Accidents:
   • On the day of the patient's discharge, the patient will be called to 1 of the 2 dress-out rooms. The patient will be dressed out and then will be escorted to the agent cashier's office where he will pick up the money he had had on account, the valuables he has had in safekeeping, and last, but not least, his ticket and transportation to his home. 1956, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, Traffic In, and Control Of, Narcotics, Barbiturates, and Amphetamines:
3. (ergative, sometimes, transitive) To butcher and prepare (an animal) for consumption.
   • The biggest buck I've killed there dressed out at 188 pounds. 1985, Byron W. Dalrymple, Field & Stream - Vol. 90, No. 3:

Forms

Coordinates

field dress

Deriveds

dress-out

Hypernyms

get changed · change · dress

Relateds

dress down · loadout · dress up · load out · changeout