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queerspeak en · NOUN

Etymology

From queer + -speak.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The style of language used by people who are queer, or do not conform to norms of gender and sexuality.
    • We should drop newspeak in favor of queerspeak: the ways different gay men and lesbians really communicate. Stories fashioned after journal entries, letters to friends, conversations. 1986 December 7, Marcos Bisticas-Cocoves, “Just the Facts, Miss Thing”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 21, page 11: