dress out

verb dresses out · dressing out · dressed out

1. intransitive To change one's clothes to prepare for outdoors activities, such as physical education; to be wearing clothes appropriate for such activities. I would rather have the mumps than dress out for gym. I
2. transitive To dress and equip (staff or patients) in preparation for leaving the hospital. On the day of the patient's discharge, the patient will be called to 1 of the 2 dress-out rooms. The patient will be dressed out and then will be escorted to the agent cashier's office where he will pick up the money he had had on account, the valuables he has had in safekeeping, and last, but not l
3. ergative, sometimes, transitive To butcher and prepare (an animal) for consumption. The biggest buck I've killed there dressed out at 188 pounds.