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re-gay

re-gay verb: to cause (an issue, especially AIDS) to be associated once again with gay people.

Verb

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

  1. (uncommon) To cause (an issue, especially AIDS) to be associated once again with gay people.
    • This is why AIDS simply had to be re-gayed.2002, Simon Watney, Imagine Hope, page 189

Forms of re-gay

third-person singular presentre-gays
present participlere-gaying
past participlere-gayed
pastre-gayed

Origin of re-gay

From re- + gay.

Questions about re-gay

What does re-gay mean?
Re-gay means to cause (an issue, especially AIDS) to be associated once again with gay people.
What part of speech is re-gay?
Re-gay is a verb.
What is the past tense of re-gay?
The past tense of re-gay is re-gayed.

Words near re-gay in the dictionary

  1. re-framing
  2. re-fuse
  3. re-fused
  4. re-fuses
  5. re-fusing
  6. re-gay
  7. re-gayed
  8. re-gaying
  9. re-gays
  10. re-gear
  11. re-geared

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