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Definition of dress to the nines

dress to the nines

verb

  • very well dressed.
    They were dressed to the nines.

    Last edited on Jun 02 2002. Submitted by Howell on Jun 02 2002.

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Other terms relating to 'dress':

Definitions include: to scold.
Definitions include: dressed very well.
Definitions include: Short for e-mail address.
Definitions include: "little black dress."
Definitions include: to be leaving.
Definitions include: to be leaving.

Other terms relating to 'nine':

Definitions include: to receive and perform oral sex at the same time.
Definitions include: a 9 millimeter pistol.
Definitions include: See nine to five.
Definitions include: to be very happy.
Definitions include: a system that is available 99.999% of the time.
Definitions include: a nine millimeter pistol.
Definitions include: A sentence or phrase that makes no sense and/or is completely off the subject.
Definitions include: not seeing the whole picture.
Definitions include: see nine-sided and son of a bitch.
Definitions include: a job.
Definitions include: a person with an office job.
Definitions include: extremely happy.
Definitions include: A police officer.
Definitions include: to receive and perform oral sex at the same time.
Definitions include: the entirety of something.

Other terms relating to 'the':

Definitions include: the real information or the proof, instruction, the know how, where, when, and why about something or someone.
Definitions include: walking, generally as opposed to driving.
Definitions include: interrogation.
Definitions include: extremely intoxicated
Definitions include: information.
Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting.
Definitions include: a good estimate.
Definitions include: a secret advantage.
Definitions include: inclusive.
Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
Definitions include: with the amount of time left to finish a task rapidly disappearing.
Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular.
Definitions include: of a male, to urinate.
Definitions include: Someone being butthurt over having something, they do to others regularly, done to the them
Definitions include: secret sexual activity with a person other than one's partner.

Other terms relating to 'to':

Definitions include: extremely intoxicated
Definitions include: See nine to five.
Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
Definitions include: a declaration of victory or superiority.
Definitions include: sex in which anal sex is immediately followed by fellatio.
Definitions include: to revisit one's past.
Definitions include: to go back to the beginning.
Definitions include: extreme; "all out".
Definitions include: to be vastly superior.
Definitions include: to perform an activity before someone else.
Definitions include: to be unintelligible.
Definitions include: to do.
Definitions include: more important things to deal with.
Definitions include: to kill or destroy.

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