Definitions for dress-up

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Spelling: [dres-uhp]
IPA: /ˈdrɛsˌʌp/

Dress-Up is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 172 anagrams from letters in dress-up (-deprssu).

Definitions for dress-up

noun

  1. Informal.. Usually, dress-ups. a person's best clothes: accessories or other added features:

adjective

  1. being an occasion, situation, etc., for which one must be somewhat formally well-dressed:

Origin of dress-up

First recorded in 1665-75; noun, adj. use of verb phrase dress up

Examples for dress-up

We only have extra under-things, said Marie, and one dress-up frock apiece, besides our camp clothes and ceremonial dresses.

Charleston, South Carolina, had a specially elegant flag—blue with a silver crescent—to use on "dress-up" days.

All these dress-up kimonos have decorations in color, sometimes embroidered and sometimes dyed on the lower points of the front.

As a rule, young people love a “dress-up” party, and the guests all entered into the spirit of the thing.

Into this both girls put such belongings as might not be used daily—a sort of "dress-up" clothes' closet.

Dey tell me dat w'en slaves wus shipped to New Orleans dey had to be dress-up in nice clothes.

Her first contact with him in a well-lighted room made her aware that there were other things to the person besides the dress-up.

Well then, when Miss Norris was going to dress-up, Cayley gave it away.

Arf of its only ousemaidin; and the other arf is dress-up and make-believe.

Word Value for dress-up
Scrable

6

Words with friends

6

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