dress up
phrasal verbdress up
- to wear clothes that are more formal than those you usually wear
- There's no need to dress up—come as you are.
dress 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
dress something up
- to present something in a way that makes it seem better or different
- However much you try to dress it up, office work is not glamorous.