noun
    
    plural -ings
    
    [count] a brief trip that people take for fun usually as a group
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    a time when an athlete (such as a baseball pitcher) competes in a game or contest
    
    
    
    
    
    an act of telling the public that a person is homosexual when that person does not want the public to know
    
    
    
    an act of telling people that a person has a certain job, identity, etc., that was supposed to be kept secret