Usually means: Wear casual clothes; criticize someone.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word dress down:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. dress down: Merriam-Webster
  2. dress-down, dress down: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dress down: Collins English Dictionary
  4. dress down: Vocabulary.com
  5. dress-down: Wordnik
  6. dress down: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. dress down: Wiktionary
  8. dress-down: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. dress down: Dictionary.com
  10. dress down: Rhymezone
  11. dress down: FreeDictionary.org
  12. dress down: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. dress down: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. dress down: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dress down: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dress down: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dress down: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dress down: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dress down: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (dress down)

verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) To scold.
verb:  (intransitive) To wear casual or informal clothes.
verb:  (nautical) To prepare (caught fish) by gutting them, removing the heads and backbones, etc.

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