gay panic
noun
Anxiety or panic as a reaction to (one's own or more usually another's) homosexuality, especially that supposedly provoked in a heterosexual man by another man's homosexual advances, and sometimes claimed as the cause of violent conduct (frequently in North American legal contexts, especially attributive in gay panic defence).
Origin
1980s; earliest use found in The Times.
- coloss
- colossal
- colossalise
- colossality
- colossalize
- colossally
- colossal order
- colossal squid
- colossean
- Colosseum
- Colossian
- Colossians, Epistle to the
- colossic
- colosso
- colossus
- Colossus of Rhodes
- colossus-wise
- colostomy
- colostomy bag
- colostral
- colostric
- colostrous
- colostrum
- colostrum corpuscle
- colotomy