Meaning of dress-up | Babel Free

Definitions

A child's game of putting on different clothes and pretending to be different people.

informal, uncountable

Examples

“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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