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Outing
//ˈaʊtɪŋ// noun, verb
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Noun
- 1 A pleasure trip or excursion.
"This was a fine day's outing for anybody who had been cooped up in the shops for a few months."
- 2 a journey taken for pleasure wordnet
- 3 A performance in public, for example in a drama, film, on a musical album, as a sports contestant etc.
"The role is the latest dramatic outing for Radcliffe since the end of the successful Potter franchise."
- 4 a day devoted to an outdoor social gathering wordnet
- 5 The act of publicly revealing that a person is homosexual or transgender without that person's consent.
"Advocates for gay and lesbian issues suggest the increase in discharges reflects the hostility of the military towards homosexual soldiers and a growing number of "forced outings" of gay and lesbian troops."
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- 6 The act of revealing somebody as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret agent or undercover detective.
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of out form-of, gerund, participle, present
Etymology
Etymology 1
From out + -ing. Compare Old English yting ("outing, journey").
Etymology 2
From out + -ing. Compare Old English yting ("outing, journey").
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