HoYay
n.— «The TV-fan site www.televisionwithoutpity.com, on its Smallville pages, even casts a rainbow spotlight on Superman’s youth with a board devoted to the show’s alleged gay undertones or “HoYay!,” shorthand for “homoeroticism, yay!”» —“New superhero RAGEs out of the closet” by Cary Darling Miami Herald Dec. 9, 2002. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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