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gayed up

gayed up is the simple past and past participle of gay up.

Meaning of gay up

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.

Questions about gayed up

What is gayed up the simple past and past participle of?
Gayed up is the simple past and past participle of gay up.

Words near gayed up in the dictionary

  1. Gaydoses
  2. Gaydu
  3. gaydy
  4. Gaye
  5. gayed
  6. gayed up
  7. gayelle
  8. gayelles
  9. gayer
  10. gayers
  11. gayest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gayed up (page history and authors); gay up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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