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gay up

gay up verb: to make something more appealing to the gay community e.g. by adding gay characters to a soap opera.

Verb

gay up (third-person singular simple present gays up, present participle gaying up, simple past and past participle gayed up)

  1. (colloquial, transitive) To make something more appealing to the gay community e.g. by adding gay characters to a soap opera.
  2. (colloquial, transitive) To give something gay characteristics.

Forms of gay up

third-person singular presentgays up
present participlegaying up
past participlegayed up
pastgayed up

Questions about gay up

What does gay up mean?
Gay up means to make something more appealing to the gay community e.g. by adding gay characters to a soap opera.
What part of speech is gay up?
Gay up is a verb.
What is the past tense of gay up?
The past tense of gay up is gayed up.

Words near gay up in the dictionary

  1. gay race communism
  2. gay rights
  3. gay science
  4. gay tyke boy
  5. gay tyke boys
  6. gay up
  7. gay vague
  8. gay village
  9. gay villages
  10. gay-ass
  11. gay-bash

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