To retcon a character in a work and make them represent a minority community of the creator’s choice all along, even if it wasn’t mentioned at all in the source material.

Named after the character Prof. Dumbledore from the Harry Potter series, when author JK Rowling announced that Dumbledore is gay without explicitly stating or hinting it in the source text.

Blizzard has been Dumbledoring many of their characters in Overwatch recently. First Tracer is a Lesbian and then Symmetra is an autist. Now words confirmed that Soldier 76 is gay.

Dumbledoring by CTRLee February 24, 2019

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Dumbledoring

The act of ret-conning a character or historical figure as being homosexual (or some other sexuality) after the fact for the sake of being inclusive or feeing included with little regard for any evidence to the contrary.

Disney has recently ret-conned Donald Duck as being trans. I’m tired of all this Dumbledoring going on.

Dumbledoring by Fishboi825 April 16, 2019

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dumbledorf

A person of little intelligence or common sense.

That guy is such a dumbledorf.

dumbledorf by TankTrap August 15, 2009

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Dumbledoring

An intense desire to die or to be killed as a means of escape from something worse than death, as seen in The Half-Blood Prince when Dumbledore screams "Kill me!" while drinking the poisoned water.

Dude, I am NEVER drinking Jim Beam straight again! I was totally Dumbledoring last night!

Dumbledoring by Bobaganusche June 3, 2011

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