COME OUT OF THE CLOSET

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

To state openly and publicly one's homosexuality

Example:

This actor outed last year

Synonyms:

come out; come out of the closet; out

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "come out of the closet" is one way to...):

break; bring out; disclose; discover; divulge; expose; give away; let on; let out; reveal; uncover; unwrap (make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s