• Dress-up

    Origin

    From dress up.

    Full definition of dress-up

    Noun

    dress-up

    (uncountable)
    1. (informal) A child's game of putting on different clothes and pretending to be different people.
      • 1995, Working Mother, The Power of Dress-up (volume 18, number 2, page 48)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.
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