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queer
adjective- homosexual US, 1914
Derogatory from the outside, not from within. G. Legman, in his 1941 The Language of Homosexuality, notes: “As an adjective it is the most common in use in America”. - Not all who call their flats in Greenwich Village “studios” are queer. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 65, 1948
- You mean–if I went and enrolled and asked for a girl teacher–nobody would think I was–queer? — Philip Wylie, Opus 21, p. 105, 1949
- You know, he’s not queer at all. It was just an imitation. — John Clellon Holmes, Go, p. 9, 1952
- In Greenwich Village, Bert had passing relationships with several girls, met a number of queer people, and associated with a group of older and well-known writers. — James T. Farrell, Ruth and Bertram, p. 91, 1955
- And Dean told Carlo of unknown people in the West like Tommy Snark, the clubfooted poolhall rotation shark and cardplayer and queer saint. — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 8, 1957
- Yeah, let that queer joint over on Division Street operate. — Willard Motely, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 247, 1958
- Sometimes I wonder if he’s gone queer. — Douglas Rutherford, The Creeping Flesh, p. 44, 1963
- Rubber was queer but he weighed 240 and could whip any two cats easily. — Babs Gonzales, Movin’ On Down De Line, p. 70, 1975
- “Oh, yes. Well, Maurice is as queer as I am.” Joe belched. “Excuse me. If not queerer. But he won’t accept it.[”] — William Burroughs, Queer, p. 29–30, 1985
- God, these panties feel great. That don’t make me queer, right? — Bull Durham, 1988
- catering to or patronised by homosexuals US
- This is a queer bar. You are not a queer. Why do you insist on being in here? — Helen P. Branson, Gay Bar, p. 56, 1957
- driven by deep and perverse sexual desires US
- I say, You not queer, baby. You look around you and you see, you not the only one. — Sara Harris, The Lords of Hell, p. 62, 1967
- not good; out of fashion US
Like “gay”, “queer” has been hijacked from its homosexual context. - This is so queer! — Chasing Amy, 1997
- counterfeit US
- These fast workers make a splendid living peddling queer securities from an office on the sidewalk in front of the Ambassador Hotel, at 14th and K. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 278, 1951
- I asked for fifties ‘cause, you know, they’re the hardest to counterfeit and the easiest to spot when they are queer. — Emmett Grogan, Final Score, p. 59, 1976
- S’posed to have done time years ago for passing queer twenties and tens. — Gerald Petievich, Money Men, p. 12, 1981
▶ to be queer for
to be fond of someone or something US- “I’m queer for Jack,” she said. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 28, 1953
- I’m queer for spades, Bernie, and the sounds, and that one cat. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 173, 1961
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