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dress-up

dress-up
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [dres uhp]
    • /drɛs ʌp/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [dres uhp]
    • /drɛs ʌp/

Definitions of dress-up word

  • adjective dress-up being an occasion, situation, etc., for which one must be somewhat formally well-dressed: the first dress-up dance of the season. 1
  • noun dress-up Informal.. Usually, dress-ups. a person's best clothes: Wear your dress-ups for the reception. accessories or other added features: a car with custom dress-ups. 1

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Origin of dress-up

First appearance:

before 1665
One of the 47% oldest English words
First recorded in 1665-75; noun, adj. use of verb phrase dress up

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Parts of speech for Dress-up

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

dress-up popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 42% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.

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