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Dressed To Kill

Definition: Dressed To Kill

Dressed To Kill

Adjective

1. Dressed in fancy or formal clothing.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Dressed To Kill

Synonyms: dolled up (adj), dressed to kill(p) (adj), dressed to the nines(p) (adj), dressed(p) (adj), dressed-up (adj), spiffed up (adj), spruced up (adj). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Dressed to Kill

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Dressed to Kill is a film directed by Brian de Palma in 1980, starring Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson and Nancy Allen.

See also: Dressed to Kill (television)

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dressed to Kill."

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Synonyms within Context: Dressed To Kill

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Ornament

In full dress; (fashion); dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, dressed to advantage; in Sunday best, en grand tenue, en grande toilette; in best bib and tucker, endimanche.

Ostentation

Dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, decjed out, all decked out, en granite tenue, in best bib and tucker, in Sunday best, endimanch_, chic.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Usage: Dressed To Kill

DomainUsage

Lyrics

She's dressed to kill (Flavor of the Weak; performing artist: American Hi-Fi)

He knows he will, he's dressed to kill (Night Owls; performing artist: Little River Band)

Movie/TV Titles

Dressed to Kill (1946)

She's Dressed to Kill (1979)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Dressed To Kill

DomainTitle

Theater & Movies

  • Dressed to Kill (reference)

  • Sherlock Holmes - The Woman in Green / Dressed to Kill (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Dressed To Kill

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Mac Smith - dressed to kill What hydrographers wear for a night out on the town. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dressed To Kill

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dressed to kill

93

dressed to kill movie

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Dressed To Kill

Language Translations for "dressed to kill"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

aufgedonnert sein (to be dressed to kill). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

esseddray otay illkay

   

Romanian

  

îmbrãcat la marele fix. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

son derece şık, aşırı şık. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Dressed To Kill

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-i-k-l-l-o-r-s-s-t"

-3 letters: sidestroke.

-4 letters: disserted, dolerites, killdeers, lordliest, lorikeets, soldiered, sollerets, trellised, trellises, triskeles.

-5 letters: delisted, deltoids, desisted, diesters, dolerite, dorkiest, dosseret, dreidels, drollest, droskies, editress, estriols, keisters, kestrels, kiesters, killdeer, killdees, klisters, leisters, loitered, lordless, lordlike, lorikeet, oersteds, oilseeds, oldsters, relisted, resisted, restoked, restokes, roselike, roselles, sistered, skelters, skidders, skillets, sledders, soldered, soldiers, solerets.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Dressed To Kill


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 72 65 73 73 65 64      54 6F      4B 69 6C 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110011 01100101 01100100 00100000 01010100 01101111 00100000 01001011 01101001 01101100 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#114 &#101 &#115 &#115 &#101 &#100 &#32 &#84 &#111 &#32 &#75 &#105 &#108 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0072 0065 0073 0073 0065 0064      0054 006F      004B 0069 006C 006C

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3884718585717025481245757878

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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