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Definition of come out of the closet

come out of the closet

verb

  • to be open about one's homosexuality.
    Did you hear that Patrick came out of the closet yesterday?

    Last edited on May 13 2011. Submitted by Ryan H. on Dec 01 2006.

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Other terms relating to 'sexuality (related to)':

Definitions include: to have sex on the "giving" end.
Definitions include: Also the past tense of "knock up".
Definitions include: in the gay community, a younger or smaller bear.
Definitions include: very good, excellent; "cool".
Definitions include: to put one's hands up a person's shirt, with hand-on-skin contact, e.g. the fondling of breasts.
Definitions include: used alone, a way of getting a person's attention; "hey you".
Definitions include: a session of sex.
Definitions include: the anus.
Definitions include: the sex act in which a man places his erect penis between a woman's breast, and the woman uses her breasts to stimulate the penis.
Definitions include: vagina or vulva.
Definitions include: breasts.
Definitions include: excluded from something.
Definitions include: to masturbate.
Definitions include: acronym for "one night stand".
Definitions include: male genitalia, especially the testicles.

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Other terms relating to 'closet':

Definitions include: prefix applied to a noun indicating a person is secretly something.
Definitions include: a person who seems good on the outside, but in the bedroom is a freak and likes to get freaky (have sex).
Definitions include: not having admitted one's non-heterosexuality.
Definitions include: having revealed publicly that one is homosexual.
Definitions include: the shower.

Other terms relating to 'come':

Definitions include: Can be said when impatiently waiting for someone to follow you. Double meaning of coming and orgasm.
Definitions include: acronym of "bend over here it comes again."
Definitions include: "come fuck me" boots.
Definitions include: to ejaculate.
Definitions include: to be unsuccessful.
Definitions include: "Could you repeat that?"
Definitions include: to be aggressive towards.
Definitions include: to confess.
Definitions include: to give someone oral sex.
Definitions include: This is an expression that was used in Western Kentucky in the late seventies, possibly earlier.
Definitions include: no matter what.
Definitions include: to reach a point in one's development where one's comfortable with one's self.
Definitions include: to give up or quit.
Definitions include: a verbal attempt to attract, especially a brazen one; "pick-up line".
Definitions include: to go to the location of one of the speakers.

Other terms relating to 'of':

Definitions include: a worthless person.
Definitions include: sexual activity.
Definitions include: a good estimate.
Definitions include: a little crazy
Definitions include: of lower than average intelligence.
Definitions include: "not all there".
Definitions include: skittish.
Definitions include: an amount of violence.
Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular.
Definitions include: an impressive.
Definitions include: an impressive.
Definitions include: many.
Definitions include: an emphatic "yes".
Definitions include: better than all that.
Definitions include: the best.

Other terms relating to 'out':

Definitions include: the feeling when you defecate huge and your anus is stretched.
Definitions include: fatigued after amphetamine use.
Definitions include: very; really; extremely.
Definitions include: to ask a person on a date.
Definitions include: in an irreparably bad situation; "out of luck"; "screwed".
Definitions include: to defecate; "poop".
Definitions include: to get someone out of jail by posting bail.
Definitions include: to tell on someone; "snitch".
Definitions include: a session of getting baked (i.e. high from marijuana.)
Definitions include: to leave.
Definitions include: See also balls to the wall.
Definitions include: to hit or cause bodily injury.
Definitions include: to study to excess or to be over-competitive in school-work.
Definitions include: to beat severely.
Definitions include: to beat severely.

Other terms relating to 'the':

Definitions include: the real information or the proof, instruction, the know how, where, when, and why about something or someone.
Definitions include: walking, generally as opposed to driving.
Definitions include: interrogation.
Definitions include: extremely intoxicated
Definitions include: information.
Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting.
Definitions include: a good estimate.
Definitions include: a secret advantage.
Definitions include: inclusive.
Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
Definitions include: with the amount of time left to finish a task rapidly disappearing.
Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular.
Definitions include: of a male, to urinate.
Definitions include: Someone being butthurt over having something, they do to others regularly, done to the them
Definitions include: secret sexual activity with a person other than one's partner.

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