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outing (1 a brief trip that people take for fun usually as a group: We went on a backpacking outing. *a family/school outing – often + to She took the children on an outing to the zoo. 2 a time when an athlete (such as a baseball pitcher) competes in a game or contest: The pitcher has struggled in his last three outings. [=the last three times he has pitched in a game] He had a good/bad outing. [=he played well/poorly] 3a an act of telling the public that a person is homosexual when that person does not want the public to know: the outing of a famous actor by gay activists 3b an act of telling people that a person has a certain job, identity, etc., that was supposed to be kept secret: the outing of a secret agent. MWALD Alexander Demidov) |
