Rainbow

Rainbow Meanings:

• A bow or arch exhibiting, in concentric bands, the several colors of the spectrum, and formed in the part of the hemisphere opposite to the sun by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of falling rain
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɹeɪnbəʊ/
• A multicoloured arch in the sky, produced by prismatic refraction of light within droplets of rain in the air.
• Any prismatic refraction of light showing a spectrum of colours.
• (often used with “of”) A wide assortment; a varied multitude.
• (figurative) An illusion; a mirage.
• (baseball) A curveball, particularly a slow one.
• (poker slang) In Texas hold 'em or Omaha hold 'em, a flop that contains three different suits.
• (figuratively, sometimes derogatory) A person within the LGBT community.
• (prismatic reflection): spectrum
• (attributive, chiefly US) Made up of several races or ethnicities, or (more broadly) of several cultural or ideological factions. 1994, John Simon, Of Dogs, Their Masters, and Others, in New York magazine, September 5 1994, page 51: That Asian-American actor Thomas Ikeda contributes a pleasingly frantic Panthino would not be considered rainbow enough.
• 2007, Hooson, in a Letter to the Western Mail, 19 June 2007, published in Crossing the Rubicon: coalition politics Welsh style by John Osmond, page 28: it seemed to me to be naive indeed for the Liberal Democrats to believe that they could simply enter into a rainbow alliance against the Labour Government.
• (poker, chiefly of a flop) Composed entirely of different suits.
• (mathematics, cryptography) Of or pertaining to rainbow tables.
• In the United States, 'rainbow' groups/families/alliances/coalitions were originally those made up of several races or ethnicities. The term is now used more broadly, to refer (in the 2007 quotation, for example) to an alliance of several political parties. Separately, use of a rainbow flag as an LGBT symbol has led to the term being used to refer to LGBT groups (initiatives, etc).
• (multicolored): motley, multihued, polychromatic; see also Thesaurus:multicolored
• (made up of several races or ethnicities): multiethnic, multiracial, rainbowed
• (made up of several factions): multipartisan
• (transitive) To brighten with, or as with, a rainbow; to pattern with the colours of the rainbow.
• (intransitive) To take the appearance of a rainbow.
• (climbing) In climbing gyms where the rocks to climb are colored to indicate suggested climbing routes, to climb rocks of different colors, thereby ignoring such routes.
• [slang] 1. a spectrum of colored light appearing in the sky; created by sun shining through rain. 2. a 'member' of the rainbow family of living light; term denoting the activities and philosophies the aforementioned. 3. someone who attends rainbow gatherings frequently. 4. a symbol widely appropriated by members of the gay community.
• [slang] If something is rainbow, it is something really good and sweet and fun, and a bit silly. Rainbows are possibly ninjas in disguise. It is also said that they may be covered in giant invisible cloaks.
• [slang] nyancat poop
• [slang] (florida) slang word used to indicate a police officer in the area of where the officer can overhear you. rainbow is being used because when cops turn their lights off its a bunch of colors. and its better off the officer dosnt hear you talking about him like oh my god its the fucking police!
• [slang] Small creature which crawls up your leg and into your rectum, and then proceeds to bite the inside of it.
• [slang] A thing in the sky that has colors
• [slang] Pure 'Gayness'...Yeah
• [slang] Allegedly made of happy thoughts, dreams, chocolate unicorns, gumdrops, licorice sunsets, fuzzy gumdrop bears, and chocolate-covered gumdrop lands.
• [slang] A bunch of colors, usually 5, 6, 7, or 8. It can be bright or pastel, but it usually at least has blue, green, red, and orange (a small rainbow). A large one has blue, green, red, orange, yellow, purple, and pink.