drag queen

• dragqueen

From drag (“women's clothing worn by men”) +‎ queen.

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drag queen (plural drag queens)

1. (LGBTQ, originally slang) A person, usually male, who dresses up in women's clothing and makeup, typically in an exaggerated fashion and for public performance.

   Synonyms: female impersonator, (dated) street queen

   Hypernyms: transvestite; see also Thesaurus:transvestite

   Hyponyms: butch queen, fishy queen

   Coordinate term: drag king

   • 1996, Robert Rodi, Drag Queen‎^[1], New York: Dutton, →ISBN, retrieved 5 February 2022, page 37:

     Donald was donning a brand new pair of pantyhose. He hadn’t shaved in a while, and he could feel his stubble snag on the nylon. It’s not pretty when a drag queen gets careless, he thought, but it was too late to do anything about it tonight.

• drag king

• → Russian: дрэг-кви́н (drɛg-kvín)

Unadapted borrowing from English drag queen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdrak ˈkwin/

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• Syllabification: drag queen

drag queen f or m pers (indeclinable)

1. drag queen (person, usually male, who dresses up in women's clothing and makeup, typically in an exaggerated fashion and for public performance)

   Coordinate term: drag king

• “drag queen”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

• drag

Unadapted borrowing from English drag queen.

• Hyphenation: drag queen

drag queen f or (uncommon/derogatory) m (plural drag queens)

1. (LGBTQ) drag queen

• drag king

• “drag queen”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

Borrowed from English drag queen.

• IPA^(key): /ˌdɾaɡ ˈkwin/ [ˌd̪ɾaɣ̞ ˈkwĩn]
• Syllabification: drag que‧en

drag queen m or f by sense (plural drag queens)

1. drag queen