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What (who) is dressing-up - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Dressing Up (disambiguation); Dressing Up (song)
dressing-up
also dressing up
When children play at dressing-up, they put on special or different clothes and pretend to be different people.
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![[[Adolf Hitler]] depicted in possible disguises by the [[United States Secret Service]] in 1944](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hitlerwithoutmoustache0002.jpg?width=200 "[[Adolf Hitler]] depicted in possible disguises by the [[United States Secret Service]] in 1944")
![A gun disguised as a [[maglite]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maglite zip gun.jpg?width=200 "A gun disguised as a [[maglite]]")
![[[Buster Keaton]] using his tie as a disguise](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tie Disguise.JPEG?width=200 "[[Buster Keaton]] using his tie as a disguise")
dressed up
IN-PERSON OR VIDEO GAME INVOLVING COSTUMES OR FASHION APPLIED TO ONESELF OR A VIRTUAL MODEL OR CHARACTER
Dress Up; Doll maker (Internet); Dress up games; Dressed up; Frankendoll; Frankendolling; Dress-Up
1.
If someone is dressed up, they are wearing special clothes, in order to look smarter than usual or in order to disguise themselves.
You're all dressed up. Are you going somewhere?...
ADJ: usu v-link ADJ
2.
If you say that something is dressed up as something else, you mean that someone has tried to make it more acceptable or attractive by making it seem like that other thing.
He tried to organise things so that the trip would be dressed up as a UN mission.
ADJ: v-link ADJ as/in n [disapproval]
3.
Wikipedia
Dressing Up
Dressing Up may refer to:
- Dressing up: Disguise
- Trick-or-treating
Examples of use of dressing-up
1. "Look, what I‘m doing is totally different to dressing up.
2. Or an innocent snapshot of a guy humoring the locals by dressing up?
3. "Is it tough," he said, laughing, of dressing up in Steelers colors.
4. Consigned to the great rock‘n‘roll dressing–up box in the sky.
5. Which might not actually have been dressing up, come to think of it.