Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lgbo

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: lgbo
IPA

7

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Being a sexual minority, or related to sexual minorities as a class of people.

Dated

noun

A gay person or other sexual minority.

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Example Sentences

"But Chester Street is hardly a gay bar, is it? Just because it's a disco place and there isn't anywhere else much for an LGBO person to go in Chambana?"
"She started and still maintains many Internet mailing lists for the LGBO community."
"I am currently making six fifteen minute programmes about LGBO life around the world called "The Pink Planet" to be broadcast on Pride FM."
"...a conversation for the LGBO community: is this over-representation a Bad Thing? (It's actually just part of the gay mafia takeover, but we keep quiet about that)"
"For the purposes of this reporting, 'LGBO' includes adults who report identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or something else/other sexual orientation. Key findings from this year's report include the following:[…]"
"Trent Lesbian & Gay Collective […] A group for LGBO's of Peterborough, Trent Univ. & Sir Sanford Fleming College, currently considering a name change to be more inclusive to bisexual community members."

Etymology

Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and other. Intended as a more inclusive alternative to the earlier LGB or GLB. Especially popular on the newsgroup soc.motss, where it was likely coined.

Usage

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Inflected Forms

LGBOs (plural) LGBO's (plural)

Derived Forms

LGBTO

Questions

What does lgbo mean?: Being a sexual minority, or related to sexual minorities as a class of people.
Where does lgbo come from?: Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and other. Intended as a more inclusive alternative to the earlier LGB or GLB. Especially popular on the newsgroup soc.motss, where it was likely coined.

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