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closet

[kloz-it]

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noun

a small room, enclosed recess, or cabinet for storing clothing, food, utensils, etc.

a small private room, especially one used for prayer, meditation, etc.

a state or condition of secrecy or carefully guarded privacy: Some conservatives remain in the closet except on election day. gay liberation has encouraged many gay people to come out of the closet.

water closet.

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adjective

private; secluded.

suited for use or enjoyment in privacy: closet reflections; closet prayer.

engaged in private study or speculation; speculative; unpractical: a closet thinker with no practical experience.

being or functioning as such in private; secret: a closet anarchist.

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verb (used with object)

to shut up in a private room for a conference, interview, etc. (usually used in the passive voice): The Secretary of State was closeted with the senator for three hours in a tense session.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English < Anglo-French, Middle French, equivalent to clos close (noun) + -et -et

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Our last few closet encounters have been specific to a certain trend or look.

In the bedroom with a closet example, it would mean the amount of carpet necessary to cover the floor.

The growing trend for gays to come out of the closet is also touching public figures.

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Our last few closet encounters have been specific to a certain trend or look.

In the bedroom with a closet example, it would mean the amount of carpet necessary to cover the floor.

The growing trend for gays to come out of the closet is also touching public figures.

Nobody wants to come out of the closet and admit they're a hand-fisherman".

So, you can keep that tinfoil helmet in your closet for now.

We have repurposed a coat closet in the front hall into a pantry and much of our cookware sits on the floor in the dining room.

Take a tour of this low-impact, eco-friendly closet.

She investigated and found a man in her closet defecating into her laundry basket.

One needs so little space to make a really useful laundry closet.

If your closet is already full and you have a two page list of missing items.

So empathy for the suffereing of the weak reveals closet antisemits.

Much of the rest was air seeping out of a closet on our second floor, where a small furnace unit was located.

And then y'all could throw the skeleton bones right in the closet do.

Family story states that the butler showed him her closet containing her shoes with freshly cut rosebuds in each shoe.

The small kitchen had an awkward space for dining and was hidden from the home's main living areas by a closet wall.

Under existing case law, only people with a key to a locked closet have apparent authority to consent to a search of that closet.

But there is less kitchen cabinet space, a little less closet space and a unfamilar arrangement of the bathroom equipment.

Most science professors would be dismayed if their college offered them a tiny closet as their designated research space.

The cleaner's closet was in the opposite end of the toilet.

My my, all the skinheads came out of the closet to comment didn't they.

In which case you might be accused of being a closet creationist.

His fishing rod was in a closet where he lived, on the other side of the city.

Three levels of windows give every room a gorgeous view-even the master closet.

But it's sitting empty in a closet right now, hidden away from young eyes.

It's generally a life-changing event when people come out of the closet.

When something is washed, it goes to the back of the sweater/pant/etc portion of the closet.

However, if its only purpose is to make closet racists, then that may be worse.

Taht means he breaks things, digs under desks and pulls out computer cords, digs things out of my closet and hides.

More people came out of the closet and told census workers and pollsters they are atheists.

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Now all you have to do is get the duster out of the closet.

The time has come for us brights to come out of the closet.

They're multiplying faster than dirty laundry behind closet doors.

People need someone to look down on so the skeletons in their closet don't seem so bad.

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These firearms are all stored in a locked steel cabinet inside an interior closet in my home.

The spray-on fabric, in contrast, is lightweight and can be stored in your closet with other clothes.

Don't begrudge a mouse the right cage because your office is in a broom closet.

They suggested you put it in a closet or under a bed.

They seem to have nested under the closet downstairs.

It's so nice not to have to be in the closet about it.

The police finally caught up with him, got a search warrant, and found a closet full of shoes at his home.

His closet full of identical blue, button-down shirts and khaki slacks eliminates sartorial dilly-dally.

If your budget is as tight as mine is, ask any friends who have professional clothing for a peek in their closet.

We also stick the litter in a closet with those odor eating sheets around the litter.

But a janitor caught jerking off in the supply closet would be gone so fast heads would spin.

As she's leaving, he gets her coat out of the closet and attempts to hold it for her.

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World English Dictionary

closet (ˈklɒzɪt)

—n
1.	a small cupboard or recess
2.	a small private room
3.	short for water closet
4.	(modifier) private or secret
5.	(modifier) suited or appropriate for use in private: closet meditations
6.	(US), (Canadian) (modifier) based on or devoted to theory; speculative: a closet strategist

—vb , -ets, -eting, -eted
7.	(tr) to shut up or confine in a small private room, esp for conference or meditation

[C14: from Old French, from clos enclosure; see close¹]

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Word Origin & History

closet

c.1340, from O.Fr. closet "small enclosure," dim. of clos, from L. clausum "closed space," from neut. pp. of claudere "to shut" (see close (v.)). In Matt. vi:6 used to render L. cubiculum, Gk. tamieion; originally in Eng. "a private room for study or prayer;" modern sense

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of "small side-room for storage" is first recorded 1616. The adjective meaning "secret, unknown" recorded from 1952, first of alcoholism, but by 1970s used principally of homosexuality; the phrase come out of the closet "admit something openly" first recorded 1963, and led to new meanings for the word out.

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Slang Dictionary

closet definition

mod.
secret; concealed. (Alludes to something being hidden in a closet. See also come out of the closet.) : Marty is a closet chocolate fiend.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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