dress out

dress out (third-person singular simple present dresses out, present participle dressing out, simple past and past participle dressed out)

1. (intransitive) To change one's clothes to prepare for outdoors activities, such as physical education; to be wearing clothes appropriate for such activities.

   Hypernyms: change, get changed

   • 2014, Angela Medearis, Skin Deep and Other Teenage Reflections‎:

     I would rather have the mumps than dress out for gym. I

2. (medicine, transitive) To dress and equip (staff or patients) in preparation for leaving the hospital.
   • 1956, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, Traffic In, and Control Of, Narcotics, Barbiturates, and Amphetamines:

     On the day of the patient's discharge, the patient will be called to 1 of the 2 dress-out rooms. The patient will be dressed out and then will be escorted to the agent cashier's office where he will pick up the money he had had on account, the valuables he has had in safekeeping, and last, but not least, his ticket and transportation to his home.

   • 1984, Robert C. Ricks, Hospital Emergency Department Management of Radiation Accidents:

     Proper Dress-out.
     1. Radiological emergency response team members dressed-out in waterproof gowns and other standard surgical attire.
     2. Cuffs and inner gloves are taped for contamination control purposes.

3. (transitive, sometimes ergative) To butcher and prepare (an animal) for consumption.

   Hypernym: dress

   Coordinate term: field dress

   • 1985, Byron W. Dalrymple, Field & Stream - Vol. 90, No. 3‎:

     The biggest buck I've killed there dressed out at 188 pounds.

• dress-out (noun)

• Stouders, outdress