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gate-happy

gate-happy adjective: excited about one's imminent release from prison.

Adjective

gate-happy (comparative more gate-happy, superlative most gate-happy)

  1. (colloquial) Excited about one's imminent release from prison.

Forms of gate-happy

comparativemore gate-happy
superlativemost gate-happy

Origin of gate-happy

From gate + happy.

Questions about gate-happy

What does gate-happy mean?
Gate-happy means excited about one's imminent release from prison.
What part of speech is gate-happy?
Gate-happy is an adjective.

Words near gate-happy in the dictionary

  1. gate-crashed
  2. gate-crasher
  3. gate-crashers
  4. gate-crashes
  5. gate-crashing
  6. gate-happy
  7. gate-keep
  8. gate-keeper
  9. gate-keepers
  10. gate-keeping
  11. gate-keeps

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