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screamer
noun- a blatant and conspicuous homosexual US, 1997
- The homosexual, who was playing hard to get, came to one masquerade party dressed as Tinkerbelle, the good fairy. He was what the other queers called a screamer. — Phyllis and Eberhard Kronhausen, Sex Histories of American College Men, p. 184, 1960
- In the summer they’d pile into convertibles and head for North Beach, a spot for bawdy screamers and butch hillbilly types. — Screw, p. 15, 23 February 1970
- — Jeff Fessler, When Drag Is Not a Car Race, p. 14, 1997
- a hysterical hospital patient US, 1978
- — Maledicta, p. 6, Summer/Winter 1978: “Common patient-directed pejoratives used by medical personnel”
- an arrest warrant US
- They haven’t booked me yet. I’m beginning to think that maybe I can walk out of this when somebody comes up to me and says, “Oh, you’re Huncke. We’ve got a screamer on you.” — Herbert Huncke, Guilty of Everything, p. 107, 1990
- a police siren US
- Course, if they come it with their screamer full on, just like now. — Jess Mowry, Way Past Cool, p. 15, 1992
- in drag racing and hot rodding, a very fast car US, 1958
- — Good Housekeeping, p. 143, September 1958: “Hot-rod terms for teen-age girls”
- a hamburger with hot sauce and onions US
- — Amy and Denise McFadden, CoalSpeak, p. 12, 1997
- in typography, an exclamation mark (!) UK, 1933
- [K]nown in the newspaper world as a screamer, a gasper, startler or (sorry) a dog’s cock. — Lynn Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves, p. 136, 2003
- a headline US
- Screamers (n. pl.) Newspaper headlines. — Hit Parader, p. 33, September 1946
- in rock climbing, a serious fall US
- SCREAMER A big fall. — Shelley Youngblut, Way Inside ESPN’s X Games, p. 209, 1998
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