"dress to kill" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: en-au-dress to kill.ogg Forms: dresses to kill [present, singular, third-person], dressing to kill [participle, present], dressed to kill [participle, past], dressed to kill [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} dress to kill (third-person singular simple present dresses to kill, present participle dressing to kill, simple past and past participle dressed to kill)
  1. (idiomatic, informal) To dress up so as to impress others (especially of the opposite sex). Tags: idiomatic, informal Categories (topical): Clothing Related terms: dressed to kill, glad rags, dressed to the nines
    Sense id: en-dress_to_kill-en-verb-d4vKqKyh Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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