" queer "

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1: queer: Originally pejorative for gay, now being reclaimed by some gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered persons as a self-affirming umbrella term. Caution: still extremely offensive when used as an epithet.

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1: Commonly used in poker, to refer to a hand that is one card short of a straight.

  * e.g.,  ... Man, my 5-6-7-9 is a straight-up queer. 

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1: Originally meant to describe something as unusual or strange. Became a deroggatory word to describe homosexuals. More recently, it has been reclaimed by non-heterosexuals as a word used to describe themselves. Queer can now be used to describe homosexuals, bisexuals, and transgendered people. In scholarly studies the word queer is also used to describe those who practice unconventional sex (e.g. bondage, etc.), therefore even heterosexuals can sometimes be defined as queer.

  * e.g.,  ...  Your brother is a really queer guy. 

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1: Originally used to define homosexuals. Now used loosely as an insult to something weird/stupid/fucked up

  * e.g.,  ... Dude, Elton John is flaming queer 

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1: \`queer\

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2:  adj.

  * e.g.,  ... (a) That crazy person is quite queer. 

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3: (a) strange, unusual

  * e.g.,  ... (b) My friend is queer, she told me yesterday. 

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4: (b) gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered

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5:  n.

  * e.g.,  ... Person A: Did you see that fucking queer? I hate them! 

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6: A member of the lgbt community.

  * e.g.,  ... Person B: Shut up, dude, don't hate them for no reason. What did they ever do to you? 

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7: Background:

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8: Originally, "queer" was simply just another word for strange, unusual, or wierd. When gay people first started coming out of the closet, they were seen as strange, unusual, and diseased. Thus, the word "queer" began denoting someone who is gay, lesbian, transgendered, or bisexual. Recently, it has been adopted by many people in the LGBT commnunity as an acceptable umbrella term. However, not all people are comfortable using it.

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1: It only means "odd". A lot of people think it means "fag" or "gay", but it really doesn't. People need to get their fucking facts straight before they go off and use a word.

  * e.g.,  ... It's December, but warm outside. That's queer. 

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1: Originaly meant strange or odd. Now stands for anyone who is sexualy different but may or may not mean gay. Queer covers any type of gender or sexual attitudes that are outside of the mainstream of one man one woman monogamy. You can be Queer and still have a heterosexual orientation if you have unusual sexual or gender identites, philosophies or habits.

  * e.g.,  ... Queer is a one word covers all that includes: 

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1: Re-claimed umbrella term used to describe the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender/Transsexual and general non-heterosexual communities. Queer is the opposite of Straight.

  * e.g.,  ... She's/He's/It's Queer 

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2: The word is becoming more acceptable than ‘Gay’ especially for homosexual woman and bisexuals who often object to being called’ gay’ which is used more often to describer gay men. It is still often used (just as ‘gay’ is) as an insult to queer people, but is taken with a pinch of salt these days.

  * e.g.,  ... The Queer Youth Alliance 

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1: (v.) To spoil or ruin

  * e.g.,  ... As of the morning of 06-20-04, I started a battery discharge analysis of this flashlight. About 20 minutes in, I somehow managed to queer the test, so I installed another Energizer L91 lithium cell in the flashlight, and started another. 

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1: Anything unusual, such as dropping the soap in the prison shower and having an oily and wet penis inserted into your orifice.

  * e.g.,  ... Golly! Someone has inserted a slippery phallus into my rectum, what a queer predicament I have found myself in.