outing

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -aʊtɪŋ

Noun

Wikipedia outing (plural outings)

1. A pleasure trip or excursion.
2. The practice of publicly revealing that a person is homosexual without that person's consent.
3. An appearance to perform in public, for example in a drama, film, on a musical album, as a sports contestant etc.
   • 2012, BBC News: Daniel Radcliffe defends casting as poet Allen Ginsberg [1]:

     The role is the latest dramatic outing for Radcliffe since the end of the successful Potter franchise.

Translations

excursion

Esperanto: ekskurso (eo) Finnish: huviretki (fi) French: excursion (fr) f., randonnée (fr) f.

Italian: escursione (it) f. Mandarin: 郊游 (cmn) (jiāoyóu), 正體 (cmn) (zhèngtǐ)

public revelation of homosexuality

French: outing (fr)

Verb

outing

1. Present participle of out.