Usually means: Apply or wear something externally.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word put on:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. put-on, put on: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. put-on: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. put-on: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. put-on, put-on, put on: Collins English Dictionary
  5. put-on, put on: Vocabulary.com
  6. put-on: Wordnik
  7. put-on: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. put-on, put on: Wiktionary
  9. put-on: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. put-on: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. put-on: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. put-on, put on: Dictionary.com
  13. Put On (comics), Put On, Put on: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. put-on, put on: Rhymezone
  15. put on: Phrasal Verb Page
  16. put-on, put on: Free Dictionary
  17. put-on, put on: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. put-on, put on: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. put on: Legal dictionary
  3. Put On: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. put-on, put on: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. put on: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. put-on: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Put On: Dan's Poker
  2. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Put On: Poker Terms

(Note: See put_ons as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (put on)

verb:  (transitive) To don (clothing, equipment, or the like).
verb:  (ditransitive) To decorate or dress (something) onto another person or a surface.
verb:  (intransitive, transitive) To fool, kid, deceive.
verb:  (transitive) To assume, adopt or affect; to behave in a particular way as a pretense.
verb:  (transitive) To play (a recording).
verb:  (ditransitive) To play (a recording) on (a sound system).
verb:  (transitive) To initiate cooking or warming, especially on a stovetop.
verb:  (transitive) To perform for an audience.
verb:  (transitive) To organize a performance for an audience.
verb:  (transitive) To provide.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To hurry up; to move swiftly forward.
verb:  (ditransitive) To bet (money or other items) on (something).
verb:  (ditransitive) To assign or apply (something) to a target.
verb:  (transitive) To give (someone) a role in popular media.
verb:  (transitive) To set (movie, show, song, etc.) to play on a screen.
verb:  (transitive) To gain (weight).
verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, on.

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