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Outing   /ˈaʊtɪŋ/   Listen
Outing

noun
1.
A journey taken for pleasure.  Synonyms: excursion, expedition, jaunt, junket, pleasure trip, sashay.  "It was merely a pleasure trip" , "After cautious sashays into the field"
2.
A day devoted to an outdoor social gathering.  Synonyms: field day, picnic.


Out

verb
1.
To state openly and publicly one's homosexuality.  Synonyms: come out, come out of the closet.
2.
Reveal (something) about somebody's identity or lifestyle.  "Someone outed a CIA agent"
3.
Be made known; be disclosed or revealed.  Synonym: come out.



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"Outing" Quotes from Famous Books



... us. One of the faculty was telling me how he tried to give two or three of his juniors an outing at his cottage over in Michigan. Everything he gave they took for granted. And if anything was lacking they took—exceptions. Monopolized the boats; ignored the dinner- hour.... Sometimes I think that even the thoughtless are thoughtful in their own way and use us, if we happen ...
— Bertram Cope's Year • Henry Blake Fuller
... Alice could not deny it, only defending herself by saying, she could not sacrifice the girl. It was a very uncomfortable revelation, considering that Isa might have given her cousin my sovereign, but no doubt she did not think that proper, as I had meant it to be spent for this outing. ...
— More Bywords • Charlotte M. Yonge
... about 8000 immigrants had arrived. This was a more rapid development than was usual in the colonies of America. Massachusetts and Virginia had been established slowly and with much privation and suffering. But the settlement of Philadelphia was like a summer outing. There were no dangers, the hardships were trifling, and there was no sickness or famine. There was such an abundance of game close at hand that hunger and famine were in nowise to be feared. The climate was good and the Indians, kindly treated, ...
— The Quaker Colonies - A Chronicle of the Proprietors of the Delaware, Volume 8 - in The Chronicles Of America Series • Sydney G. Fisher
... the wine and the drive. His eyes were rather moist and glittered more than usual, and as he sat in his saddle, wrapped up in his fur coat, he looked like a child taken out for an outing. ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy
... man of cities there would have been nothing particularly unusual in this sight of a well-groomed man and girl in the tonneau of an automobile. The man was a familiar type, of medium size, precise, his outing clothes just a trifle garish; the girl trim and sweet-faced, and stylish from the top of her head to the soles of her expensive little boots. But no moment of Bill's life had ever been fraught with a greater wonder. ...
— The Snowshoe Trail • Edison Marshall


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