friend of Dorothy
noun informal
A homosexual man: Harry’s a real friend of Dorothy, aren’t you, Harry?...
- And I don't think this means Bruce is secretly a friend of Dorothy.
- But the tag for the ad was, ‘Are you a friend of Dorothy?’
- You'd hear stories about her banning and threatening people who asked if she was a friend of Dorothy on AOL chat groups.
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).
- frontally
- front and center
- front bench
- frontbencher
- front bottom
- front bum
- front burner
- front court
- front cover
- Front de Libération Nationale
- front desk
- front door
- Frontenac, Louis de Buade
- front end
- front-end load
- front-end loader
- front-fanged
- frontier
- frontierless
- frontier post
- frontiersman
- frontierswoman
- frontispiece
- frontisterion
- frontless