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curry-queen

curry-queen is the alternative spelling of curry queen.

Meaning of curry queen

Noun

curry queen (plural curry queens)

  1. (derogatory, slang) A (usually white) man who is mostly attracted to South Asian or Indian men.
    • But in America, as I tentatively explored my gayness, I started meeting the real queens — drag queens, potato queens, rice queens, and salsa queens. What I needed to find, my friends assured me, was a bona fide curry queen.1998, David L. Eng, Alice Y. Hom, chapter 17, in Queer in Asian America, Temple University Press, page 256

Forms of curry-queen

pluralcurry-queens

Questions about curry-queen

What is curry-queen the alternative spelling of?
Curry-queen is the alternative spelling of curry queen.

Words near curry-queen in the dictionary

  1. curry-combs
  2. Curry-Howard correspondence
  3. Curry-Howard isomorphism
  4. curry-muncher
  5. curry-munchers
  6. curry-queen
  7. currycel
  8. currycels
  9. currycomb
  10. currycombed
  11. currycombing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: curry-queen (page history and authors); curry queen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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