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tryke en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /tɹaɪk/

Meanings

  1. (slang) A lesbian trans woman.
    • […] faggots dykes and trykes who have not found the ability or the words […] 2005, Emanuel Xavier, Bullets & Butterflies: Queer Spoken Word Poetry, page 117:
    • I mention an idea for Tryke T-shirts. "They'd say 'Trykes like dykes' on the front," I explain, and 'Dykes like Trykes' on the back. I wonder if anyone would wear them? One of the Avengers looks at me. She is very pretty. I feel something pass between us. "I would wear it," she says. I wonder what she sees, what I've passed as. 2020, Riki Wilchins, Joan Nestle, Clare Howell, GenderQueer-Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary, page 237:

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