dress-up en · NOUN
Etymology
Deverbal from dress up.
Meanings
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(informal, uncountable) A child's game of putting on different clothes and pretending to be different people.
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.
1995, Working Mother: The Power of Dress-up, volume 18, number 2, page 48:
Coordinates
Deriveds
dress-up party · dress-up game
Translations (2)
pl przebieranka (Translations) · nb utkledning (Translations)