PUT ON meaning: Apply or wear something externally

We found 30 dictionaries that define the word put on:

General (21 matching dictionaries)

put on: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
put-on, put on: Merriam-Webster
put-on: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
put-on: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
put-on, put-on, put on: Collins English Dictionary
put-on, put on: Vocabulary.com
put-on: Wordnik
put-on: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
put-on, put on: Wiktionary
put-on: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
put-on: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
put-on: Infoplease Dictionary
put-on, put on: Dictionary.com
Put On (comics), Put On, Put on: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
put-on, put on: Rhymezone
put on: Phrasal Verb Page
put-on, put on: FreeDictionary.org
put-on, put on: Mnemonic Dictionary
put-on, put on: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)

MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
put on: Legal dictionary
Put On: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

put-on, put on: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

put on: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
put-on: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)

Put On: Dan's Poker
Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)
Put On: Poker Terms

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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.

Similar:

wear, cod, mount, befool, dupe, fool, put one over, counterfeit, apply, get into, more...

Opposite:

take off, remove, get rid of

Types:

hat, gloves, scarf, socks, shoes, belt, tie, jacket, pants, skirt, more...

Phrases:

put on airs, put money on, put on the line, put on the dog, put on the map, more...

Adjectives:

uniform, able, overclad, bedight, buttony, on, happed, dight, blanket, button-down, flannel

Colors:

red, blue, green, yellow, purple, more...