queer

adjective6

1. •
   (old-fashioned) Strange, odd, or different; whimsical.

   • An old long-faced, long-bodied servant, gave a queer look — 1824
2. •
   Pertaining to sexual or gender behaviour or identity which does not conform to conventional heterosexual or cisgender norms, assumptions etc.

   • If gender is no longer to be understood as consolidated through normative sexuality, then is there a crisis of gender that is specific to queer contexts? — 1999
3. •
   (informal, offensive) Homosexual.

   • This is a one-shot thing we got goin’ on here. […] You know I ain’t queer. — 2005
4. •
   (informal, offensive) Non-heterosexual or non-cisgender: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc.
5. •
   (informal, old-fashioned) Slightly unwell.

   • I felt queer after eating those shrimp.
6. •
   (slang, old-fashioned) Drunk.

verb6

1. •
   (old-fashioned) To render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null.

   • I was a lot more apt to queer it than help it. — 1955
2. •
   To reevaluate or reinterpret (a work) with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender, as by applying queer theory.

   • Jonathan Goldberg further explores the implications of queering history in his essay in the same volume. — 2006
3. •
   (slang, old-fashioned) To spoil the effect or success of, as by ridicule; to throw a wet blanket on; to spoil.

   • "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." — 1920
4. •
   (slang) To make a work more appealing or attractive to LGBT people, such as by not having strict genders for playable characters.
5. •
   (slang, old-fashioned) To ridicule; to banter; to rally.
6. •
   (dialect, old-fashioned) To puzzle.

   • "Where do you come from?" Stanley queered. — 1894

noun4

1. •
   (informal, offensive) A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities.

   • 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. — 1940
2. •
   (informal, offensive) A person of any non-heterosexual sexuality or sexual identity.
3. •
   (informal, offensive) A person of any genderqueer identity.

   • 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. — 2014
4. •
   (informal, no longer used) Counterfeit money.

   • You're shoving the queer. — 1913

adverb2

1. •
   Queerly.
2. •
   (Ireland) Very, extremely.

   • Twas a queer bachram in the pub that night!

adjective1

1. •
   Of or relating to the culture surrounding queer people.