dress up

Meaning

1. Oxford71% of films

   to put on special clothes, especially to pretend to be sb / sth different

2. Oxford29% of films

   to wear clothes that are more formal than those you usually wear

   Yeah. Gotta dress up for the parole officer.

In the movies · 46

• Oh, did you boys get all dressed up for me?Frozen II2019
• whose idea, I believe, it was to dress up in drag.Bohemian Rhapsody2018
• Yeah. Gotta dress up for the parole officer.American History X1998
• Did she dress up nice and clean?An American Crime2007
• Don't we have to dress up?Last Night in Soho2021
• Why'd we do it, Dan? Dress up like that?Watchmen2009
• I dress up. What's the hot Halloween outfit these days?We're the Millers2013
• Then why do you dress up like him?The Dark Knight2008

Learn it in full scenes

• American History X1998
  • Sweeney Makes Danny a Deal
  • Derek Vinyard's TV Interview
  • The Basketball Court Bet
• An American Crime2007
  • Sylvia Meets Friends at Church
  • Paula Brags About Her Married Boyfriend
  • Gertrude Takes In the Likens Girls
• We're the Millers2013
  • David Runs Into Little Ricky
  • David Fights for Casey
  • Brad Offers David a Job

From the same entry

• mutton dressed as lamb
• look the part
• dress down
• dress down

More phrasal verbs

• come to
• stay out of
• set out
• meet up
• look out for
• pull yourself together
• miss out
• get through
• check on
• relate to
• turn to
• bear with