uncloset
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[edit]uncloset (third-person singular simple present unclosets, present participle uncloseting, simple past and past participle uncloseted)
- (transitive) To bring out of the closet; to out.
- 1977 December 24, Robert Etherington, “Gays In The Academy—Uneven Scholars”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 25, page 13:
- What is novel is the willingness of all 26 contributors to, in effect, uncloset themselves and appear in a (more or less) scholarly volume specifically for the gay community.