TRY ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does try on mean? 

• TRY ON (verb)
  The verb TRY ON has 1 sense:

1. put on a garment in order to see whether it fits and looks nice

  Familiarity information: TRY ON used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRY ON (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put on a garment in order to see whether it fits and looks nice

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

try; try on

Context example:

Try on this sweater to see how it looks

Hypernyms (to "try on" is one way to...):

assume; don; get into; put on; wear (put clothing on one's body)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They try on the cape

Derivation:

try-on (putting clothes on to see whether they fit)

 Context examples 

You should know me better than to try on such a game with me.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Amy did not come, Meg went to her room to try on a new dress, Jo was absorbed in her story, and Hannah was sound asleep before the kitchen fire, when Beth quietly put on her hood, filled her basket with odds and ends for the poor children, and went out into the chilly air with a heavy head and a grieved look in her patient eyes.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)