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outing

Pronunciation: /ˈaʊtɪŋ/
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Definition of outing

noun

  • 1a trip taken for pleasure, especially one lasting a day or less:a family outing to Weston-super-Mare
  • a brief journey from home:her daily outing to the shops
  • informal an appearance in something, especially a sporting event or film:Madonna’s first screen outing in three years
  • 2 [mass noun] the practice of revealing the homosexuality of a prominent person: the outing of gays by the press

Origin:

late Middle English (in the sense 'the action of going out or of expelling'): from the verb out + -ing1

outing in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of outing in the US English dictionary
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