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What (who) is dress up - definition
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
dress up
1.
If you dress up or dress yourself up, you put on different clothes, in order to make yourself look smarter than usual or to disguise yourself.
You do not need to dress up for dinner...
Little girls dress up as angels for fiestas.
PHRASAL VERB: V P, V P in/as n
2.
If you dress someone up, you give them special clothes to wear, in order to make them look smarter or to disguise them.
Mother loved to dress me up.
PHRASAL VERB: V n P
3.
If you dress something up, you try to make it seem more attractive, acceptable, or interesting than it really is.
Politicians dress up their ruthless ambition as a pursuit of the public good...
However you dress it up, a bank only exists to lend money.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P
4.
dress up
dress in smart clothes or in a special costume.
dress up
v. (D; intr., tr.) to dress up as (he dressed up as a cowboy; they dressed her up as a ballerina)
Wikipedia
Dress-up
Dress-up is a children's game in which costumes or clothing are put on a person or on a doll, for role-playing or aesthetics purposes. In the UK the game is called dressing up. In the mid-1990s, dress-up games also became a video game genre in which customizing a virtual character's appearance is the primary focus.
Examples of use of dress up
1. Smaller kids dress up and knock on doors for treat, older kids have halloween parties and adults dress up to hand out the treats.
2. He said: "The idea of the carnival is to dress up and have fun.
3. "People dress up in costume here more at Christmas than Halloween now," he said.
4. People often dress up in Halloween–like outfits and paint their faces.
5. Tonight, we dress up, look special and raise good money for a good cause."