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What does gay mean?

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Adjective
  1. (dated, possibly archaic) Happy, joyful, and lively.
  2. (dated, possibly archaic) Festive, bright, or colourful.
  3. (obsolete) Sexually promiscuous (of any gender).
  4. Homosexual:
    1. (of a person or animal) Possessing sexual and/or emotional attraction towards members of the same gender or non-anti-gender area.
    2. (of a romantic or sexual act or relationship) Being between two or more people of the same gender or the same gender-area, especially between two men.
    3. (of an institution or group) Intended for gay people, especially gay men.
    4. (for) Homosexually in love with someone.
    5. (for) In love with something, usually as a homosexual.
    6. In accordance with stereotypes of homosexual people:
  5. A pejorative:
    1. (derogatory) Effeminate or flamboyant in behavior.
    2. (derogatory) Used to express dislike: lame, uncool, stupid.
  6. (of a dog's tail) Upright or curved over the back.
Noun
  1. (chiefly in plural or attributive) A homosexual, especially a male homosexual; see also lesbian.
  2. (obsolete) An ornament.
Verb
  1. (transitive, dated, uncommon) To make happy or cheerful. [since at least the 1920s]
  2. (transitive, uncommon) To cause (something, e.g. AIDS) to be associated with homosexual people. [popularized in the 1990s]
Noun
  1. The letter —, which stands for the sound /ɡ/, in Pitman shorthand.
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