queer

Homosexual.colloquialderogatorysometimes

• “Such a Momma’s boy.” The old men had started up again—or perhaps they had never stopped. “No matter who he schtupped. Even Marilyn. I wouldn’t be surprised he was queer.” / “Strange, yes. Weird, yes. Queer, I don’t think.”
• This is a one-shot thing we got goin’ on here. […] You know I ain’t queer.

Non-heterosexual or non-cisgender: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc.colloquialderogatorysometimes

Pertaining to sexual or gender behaviour or identity which does not conform to conventional heterosexual or cisgender norms, assumptions etc.broadly

• the queer community

Strange, odd, or different; whimsical.datedhumorousoften

• 1927, J. B. S. Haldane, “Possible Worlds” in Possible Worlds and Other Papers, London: Chatto & Windus, Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

Slightly unwell.UKdatedinformal

• I felt queer after eating those shrimp.

Drunk.UKdatedslang

A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities.colloquialderogatorysometimes

• It is the queers themselves whose answers to "What to do about it [homosexuality]" are most important. They, rather than the normals, cops, parents, or doctors are the persons most vitally concerned.
• If you asked the man in the modern street for his opinion of homosexuality, he would probably reply, 'I've nothing against queers myself but I wouldn't like one of them to marry my father.'

A person of any non-heterosexual sexuality or sexual identity.colloquialderogatorysometimes

A person of any genderqueer identity.colloquialderogatorysometimes

• Gentrification often starts with the artists, revolutionaries, freaks, transfolks, and queers (what I would call my people) moving into poor neighborhoods inhabited by people of color.

Counterfeit money.archaicinformalwith-definite-article

• You're shoving the queer.

To render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null.datedtransitive

• I was a lot more apt to queer it than help it.

To puzzle.UKdateddialectal

• "Where do you come from?" Stanley queered.

To ridicule; to banter; to rally.datedslang

To spoil the effect or success of, as by ridicule; to throw a wet blanket on; to spoil.datedslang

• "Food is what queered the party. We ordered a big supper to be sent up to the room about two o'clock. Alec didn't give the waiter a tip, so I guess the little bastard snitched."
• Well, then I got buried—shell dropped, and the dug-out caved in—and that queered me. They sent me home.

To reevaluate or reinterpret (a work) with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender, as by applying queer theory.

• If I go, for instance, to the history of the church in Latin America, and decide to queer the history of the Jesuitic Missions, I may find that, in many ways, the missions were more sexual than Christian.
• Jonathan Goldberg further explores the implications of queering history in his essay in the same volume.

To make a work more appealing or attractive to LGBT people, such as by not having strict genders for playable characters.neologismslang

Queerly.not-comparableusually

Very, extremely.Irelandnot-comparableusually

• Twas a queer bachram in the pub that night!