The Gay Gordons is a nickname of the Gordon Highlanders, a former infantry regiment of the British army. It is also applied to:
- Gay Gordons (solitaire), a form of the card game Solitaire (or Patience)
- Gay Gordons (dance), a popular ceilidh dance
- The Gay Gordons (musical), a 1907 musical comedy with book by Seymour Hicks and lyrics by P.G. Wodehouse.
Note that "Gay" in this phrase has the Scots meaning, "extraordinary" rather than the more commonly used English meanings.
Famous quotes containing the word gay:
“Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.”
—John Gay (1685–1732)
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