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leather queen

leather queen noun: a gay man with a fetish for leather.

Noun

leather queen (plural leather queens)

  1. (slang) A gay man with a fetish for leather.
    • This was a long way from making him a leather queen, I had to admit, but I didn't have any trouble picturing him in those bars, leaning sinuously against something, those long strong fingers curled around a beer bottle, those flat cold eyes staring, measuring, challenging.1991, Lawrence Block, A Ticket To The Boneyard, →ISBN, page 142
    • The macho gay, the leather queen, the denim groupie — these are more than just ironic rejoinders to heterosexual masculinity.1993, Anthony Giddens, The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies, →ISBN, page 147

Forms of leather queen

pluralleather queens

Questions about leather queen

What does leather queen mean?
Leather queen means a gay man with a fetish for leather.
What part of speech is leather queen?
Leather queen is a noun.
What is the plural of leather queen?
The plural of leather queen is leather queens.

Words near leather queen in the dictionary

  1. leather knives
  2. leather leaf
  3. leather leafs
  4. leather lunged
  5. leather poisoning
  6. leather queen
  7. leather queens
  8. leather working
  9. leather-britches
  10. leather-coat
  11. leather-coats

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