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Definition: Dressed To Kill |
Dressed To KillAdjective1. Dressed in fancy or formal clothing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Dressed To KillSynonyms: 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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See also: Dressed to Kill (television)
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| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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| Domain | Title |
Theater & Movies | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Mac Smith - dressed to kill What hydrographers wear for a night out on the town. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dressed to kill | 93 |
dressed to kill movie | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 îmbrãcat la marele fix. (various references) son derece şık, aşırı şık. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 72 65 73 73 65 64      54 6F      4B 69 6C 6C |
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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)D r e s s e d   T o   K i l l |
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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