dress down

== English == === Etymology === From analogy with dress up. === Pronunciation === === Verb === dress down (third-person singular simple present dresses down, present participle dressing down, simple past and past participle dressed down) (transitive, idiomatic) To scold. (intransitive) To wear casual or informal clothes. (nautical) To prepare (caught fish) by gutting them, removing the heads and backbones, etc. ==== Translations ==== === See also === dress-down day dress-down Friday dress up === Anagrams === sends word