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king noun- an accomplished graffiti writer US
- A writer who has mastered the art form. — Scape Martinez, Graf!, p. 125, 2009
- an aggressive, “mannish” lesbian US
- — Florida Legislative Investigation Committee (Johns Committee), Homosexuality and Citizenship in Florida, 1964: “Glossary of homosexual terms and deviate acts”
- — Dale Gordon, The Dominion Sex Dictionary, p. 97, 1967
- — Anon., King Smut’s Wet Dreams Interpreted, 1978
- — Maledicta, p. 132, Summer/Winter 1982: “Dyke diction: the language of lesbians”
- a male leader of a group of Australian Aboriginals AUSTRALIA, 1830
- Old Culwaddy the "king", squatting by the galley fire, looked up questioningly[.] — Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, p. 56, 1947
- Willie is the "king" of this crowd and staunch to me. — Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, p. 211, 1947
- After I’d been at Tobermary six years, them old tribal kings gave me my wife, Janie. — Herb Wharton, Cattle Camp, p. 98, 1994
- a skilled person (at a specified thing); an adept AUSTRALIA, 1919
- Llew Jones, small and nuggety, once a bookmaker’s clerk, and now a two-up king. — Leonard Mann, Flesh in Armour, p. 37, 1932
- This fella was a bit of a raffle king, like myself. — Frank Hardy, The Yarns of Billy Borker, p. 129, 1965
- It was fatty Keenan, living up to his reputation as "king of the cockatoos [lookouts]". — Lance Peters, The Dirty Half-Mile, p. 46, 1979
- in Keno, any single number that a player circles to bet on US
- — John Mechigian, Encycopedia of Keno, p. 111, 1972
- an outstanding piece of graffiti art US
- — Jim Crotty, How to Talk American, p. 141, 1997
- cocaine UK
- — Nick Constable, This is Cocaine, p. 181, 2002
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