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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
friend of Dorothy

▶noun informal a homosexual man.

– origin from the name of Dorothy, a character played by the actress Judy Garland (a gay icon) in the film The Wizard of Oz (1939).

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