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I love to gyrate around fellow from Muscat (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

omani

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'muscat' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't understand how they can define each other.

'i love to gyrate around fellow' is the wordplay.
'love' becomes 'o' (love means zero in tennis).
'to gyrate' indicates anagramming the letters (I've seen 'gyrating' mean this (letters dance or gyrate around)).
'around' indicates putting letters inside.
'fellow' becomes 'man' (fellow can mean a man).
'i'+'o'='io'
'io' with letters rearranged gives 'oi'.
'oi' placed around 'man' is 'OMANI'.

'from' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for omani that I've seen before include "Middle East national" , "coming from the Middle East" , "Speaker of Arabic" , "Someone from Muscat" , "Gulf Arab" .)

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