See A-gay on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1998, Armistead Maupin, More Tales of the City:",
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"ref": "2003, Justin McGuinness, Footprint Morocco http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=ldBtziUKLRIC&pg=PA26&lpg=PA26&sig=K8ZsVL04ipvY8FoPLVnUy0SFet4",
"text": "The latter is long past its heyday of the 1950s and 1960s, while Marrakech continues to attract wealthy A-gays."
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"ref": "2003, Michael S Piazza, Queeries:",
"text": "We who suffered the pain of playground exclusion now practice an enforced segregation with an effectiveness that designates certain members of our community as A-gays and marks the rest as inferior.",
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Download raw JSONL data for A-gay meaning in All languages combined (1.9kB)
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