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[ US /ˈɡeɪ/ ]
[ UK /ɡˈe‍ɪ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. given to social pleasures often including dissipation
    led a gay Bohemian life
    a gay old rogue with an eye for the ladies
  2. offering fun and gaiety
    gay and exciting night life
    a festive (or festal) occasion
    a merry evening
  3. full of or showing high-spirited merriment
    when hearts were young and gay
    jolly old Saint Nick
    have a merry Christmas
    peals of merry laughter
    a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company
    the jolly crowd at the reunion
    a mirthful laugh
    a jovial old gentleman
  4. bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer
    a cheery hello
    a gay sunny room
    a sunny smile
  5. brightly colored and showy
    `braw' is a Scottish word
    girls decked out in brave new dresses
    birds with gay plumage
    a dress a bit too gay for her years
    brave banners flying
  6. homosexual or arousing homosexual desires
NOUN
  1. someone who is sexually attracted to persons of the same sex
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  • In fact - as a percentage of the population - there's basically a direct analogy between the number of gay tax-payers and the number of gay students.
  • life that is gay, brisk, and debonair
  • We're sitting in the middle of a gay pub, and - typically for a bunch of straight guys, I muse - they haven't twigged at all.
  • Don't get gay in the presence of so many people.
  • He has spent money with gay abandon.
  • Assault and battery on an ederly woman is no worse than assaulting a gay woman, no? landshark Holder pushes hate crimes law; GOP unpersuaded
  • Roger appeared with a plump stubborn Welsh pony, attached to a funny little cart which he gayly informed them was a "gingle. The Spanish Chest
  • You cannot on one hand tell foks how good gayness is then in the same breath use gayness as an insult andhave any crediblity. Think Progress » Religious Right Seeks Unprecedented Constitutional Convention To Ban Gay Marriage Without Congress
  • Also masculine females and feminine males - including butches and gay males considered to be ‘effeminate.’
  • Liberal proponents of American Values praise the freedom that opens the floodgates to gay marriage and pornography; conservatives, the liberty unleashing that locust plague called unrestrained capitalism; neo-conservatives the license for lying, murderous Machtpolitik. Founding Fathers vs. Church Fathers
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