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outing

 noun
     
Related topics: Leisure
out‧ing
1 [countable]DL a short trip that a group of people take for pleasure
a family/school etc outing
a class outing to the ballet
outing to
an outing to the beach
on an outing
They had gone on an outing to the pool for Robert's birthday.
2 [uncountable and countable] when someone publicly says that someone else is homosexual, when that person does not want anyone to know
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