dressed to kill

1. 1.

   dressed in fancy or formal clothing

   Synonymsdresseddressed-updressed to the ninesdolled upspruced upspiffed uptogged up

   Similarclothed

Questions about dressed to kill

What does dressed to kill mean?

dressed to kill means "dressed in fancy or formal clothing".

What is another word for dressed to kill?

Close synonyms include dressed, dressed-up, dressed to the nines, dolled up, spruced up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dressed to kill a common word?

dressed to kill is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.