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bury your gays

bury your gays noun: a fiction trope where gay characters tend to die or generally meet an untimely demise.

Noun

bury your gays (uncountable)

  1. (slang) A fiction trope where gay characters tend to die or generally meet an untimely demise.

Questions about bury your gays

What does bury your gays mean?
Bury your gays means a fiction trope where gay characters tend to die or generally meet an untimely demise.
What part of speech is bury your gays?
Bury your gays is a noun.

Words near bury your gays in the dictionary

  1. bury one's head in the sand
  2. Bury St Edmunds
  3. bury the hatchet
  4. bury the lead
  5. bury the lede
  6. bury your gays
  7. buryable
  8. buryal
  9. buryals
  10. Buryat
  11. Buryatia

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