be dressed up
phrasal verbdress up (as somebody/something) | be dressed up (as somebody/something)
- to put on special clothes, especially to pretend to be somebody/something different
- Kids love dressing up.
- The boys were all dressed up as pirates.
- (British English) dressing-up clothes
- (North American English) dress-up clothes
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