Usually means: Reveal one's hidden sexual orientation.
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  1. come out of the closet: Vocabulary.com
  2. come out of the closet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. come out of the closet: Wiktionary
  4. come out of the closet: Dictionary.com
  5. Come out of the closet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. come out of the closet: Rhymezone
  7. come out of the closet: FreeDictionary.org
  8. come out of the closet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. come out of the closet: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. come out of the closet: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. come out of the closet: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (come out of the closet)

verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic, LGBTQ) To disclose to others about one's sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity, where previously this had been kept secret.
verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic, informal, sometimes humorous) To self-disclose about one's minority or disapproved-of identity, belief, preference, etc.

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