queered

Related to queered: queerish, queerly, queerest

queer

1. verb To ruin or upset something. You're going to queer the whole thing if you keep asking so many questions!
2. noun A derogatory and highly offensive term for a homosexual, bisexual, transgender, or otherwise non-heterosexual or non-cisgender person.
3. noun A reclaimed term (see Definition 2) used by homosexual, bisexual, transgender, or otherwise non-heterosexual or non-cisgender people to self-identify as such. Yeah, I'm a queer, a dude who likes dudes. So what?
4. noun, slang Alcohol, especially when it is not allowed (such as during Prohibition). You better not get caught drinking that queer in here.
5. adjective Very strange. Everyone could tell he was a queer one as soon as he walked into the party with his mismatched clothing.
6. adjective A derogatory and highly offensive term used to describe a homosexual, bisexual, transgender, or otherwise non-heterosexual or non-cisgender person.
7. adjective A reclaimed term (see Definition 6) used by homosexual, bisexual, transgender, or otherwise non-heterosexual or non-cisgender people to self-identify as such or to describe related issues, interests, etc. Being queer shouldn't mean having to be treated as a second-class citizen. Queer literature is having a renaissance.
8. adjective Describing a sensibility or perspective that rejects the notion that there are only two distinct gender identities. That haircut really suits her queer aesthetic.
9. adjective Having a focus on sex and gender, especially that which is non-heteronormative. Couldn't we also do a queer reading of this text?
10. adjective Fraudulent or illegitimate. Don't show me those queer financial records—I don't want to know anything about your seedy doings!
11. adjective, slang Drunk. Do you remember last night at the bar at all? You were really queer.

queered

slang Made or turned into a non-heterosexual. Often but not always used in an offensive derogatory manner. He said he didn't want to join the wrestling team because he was afraid of getting queered by having so much physical contact with other guys. That was so amazing. If I weren't already gay, I think I would have gotten queered by watching it.
See also: queer
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

queered

mod. alcohol intoxicated. (In the sense made bogus.) How can anybody get so queered on two beers?
See also: queer
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • look alike
  • trannie
  • tranny
  • wear (one's) apron high
  • high
  • high, wide, and handsome
  • bummer
  • angle
  • angling
References in periodicals archive
"And where do classroom teachers figure in bullying at school?" I gave my answer, verbally connecting two fields, two spaces, two identities, and realized the young reporter had without too much thought accomplished something I had not found a way to do: locate an embodiment of queered teacher education.
Getting queer: teacher education, gender studies, and the cross-disciplinary quest for queer pedagogies
Few first books on any given topic are comprehensive, but Media Queered offers a great starting point.
Takes on TV's treatment
Bart's was a clever tactic in challenging George Bush; indeed, a cartoon character talking back to a "real" TV image of the President of the United States only picks up on and redeploys the queered, blurred boundaries of a President who has just chastised a cartoon.
Using the inspection of the glaring adult against the adult herself, they queered the suburbs even further, winning their small-scale skirmish much as Bart Simpson did with George Bush (after all, who was canceled in 1992?).
Introduction: queer works