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- adjective Attributive form of
drag queen , noun.
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Examples
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Like drag-queen patrons getting a load of Marge's hair and voice, and the flyer for Gay Pride Day at Krustyland: "This makes up for years of slurs!"
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The monastery shares a wall with the Fine Line Tattoo parlor and is across the street from the drag-queen cabaret Lucky Cheng's.
Letting Go of Wall Street Jo Piazza 2011
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He really started and got noticed playing a drag-queen travelling accross Australia with 2 friends in a bus named "Priscilla".
Hugo Weaving Exclusive Video Interview; Talks THE WOLFMAN and THE HOBBIT – Collider.com 2010
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The night of the announcement he mocked both the rightwing Tea Party movement and the liberal antiwar group CodePink, whose members interrupt congressional hearings with various boisterous antics while dressed like drag-queen versions of Jackie Onassis.
Jon Stewart still calls out to sensible America. Fox won't Michael Tomasky 2010
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Visitors entering the glitzy enclosure will be confronted by a fleetingly full-frontal silent movie in which the artist's drag-queen alter ego, "Miss Chief Eagle Testickle" (sic), has "her" way with two white men—drunken hunks clothed (and unclothed) in loincloths.
Artifacts to Artworks Lee Rosenbaum 2012
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He made one HECK of an ugly drag-queen, but the movie was fabulous!
Hugo Weaving Exclusive Video Interview; Talks THE WOLFMAN and THE HOBBIT – Collider.com 2010
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And many of those who marched down Fifth Avenue on Sunday would be hard pressed to realize that this little old lady -- once the cross-dressing M.C. of a group of drag-queen performers, once a fiercely protective (and pistol-packing) bouncer in the city's lesbian bars -- was one of the reasons they were marching.
Jim Luce: Gay Community's Rosa Parks Faces Death, Impoverished and Alone 2010
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Not so the 1978 film on which it is based, in which the story of two middle-age gay men who run a transvestite nightclub (one is the manager, the other the drag-queen star) is told with such sweet simplicity that you can't help but be touched.
Size Matters 2010
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I cannot go on wearing the most unsuitable clothes, looking like a color-blind drag-queen.
Morane Barkai: A Decently Shallow Reason to Learn to Appreciate Your Body Morane Barkai 2010
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And many of those who marched down Fifth Avenue on Sunday would be hard pressed to realize that this little old lady -- once the cross-dressing M.C. of a group of drag-queen performers, once a fiercely protective (and pistol-packing) bouncer in the city's lesbian bars -- was one of the reasons they were marching.
Jim Luce: Gay Community's Rosa Parks Faces Death, Impoverished and Alone 2010
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