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screaming adjective- striking; conspicuous; obvious US, 1848
Used as an intensifier since the mid-C19, but in a slangy homosexual sense much more recently. - I have always made fun of the swishing, screaming, flaunting queens and you have always laughed with me. — Mattachine Review, p. 24, March 1960
- “You don’t appreciate this bunch of screaming faggots very much, do you?” — Joe Houston, The Gay Flesh, p. 10, 1965
- — Fact, p. 27, January–February 1965
- Old Jewish mothers never know when their sons are faggots. They just miss it somehow. Out-and-out screaming queens–mothers are never hip. — Lenny Bruce, The Essential Lenny Bruce, p. 162, 1967
- [S]creaming queen: outrageous homosexual man. — Paul Baker, Polari, p. 189, 2002
- excellent; the best US
- That cup of coffee was screamin — James Harris, A Convict’s Dictionary, p. 37, 1989
- — Jim Goad, Jim Goad’s Glossary of Northwestern Prison Slang, December 2001
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