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gays up

gays up is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 gays up

What is gays up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Gays up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of gay up.

Words near gays up in the dictionary

  1. Gayropa
  2. Gayrope
  3. Gayropean
  4. Gayropeans
  5. gays
  6. gays up
  7. gaysian
  8. gaysians
  9. gayslop
  10. Gaysoc
  11. Gaysocs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gays 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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