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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Initialism of member of the same sex. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Etymology

First coined by Alfred Kinsey of the Kinsey Institute, and later employed by Masters and Johnson and the 1970 U.S. Census forms.

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