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muscle-queen

muscle-queen is the alternative spelling of muscle queen.

Meaning of muscle queen

Noun

muscle queen (plural muscle queens)

  1. (derogatory, slang) An especially muscular gay man who works out, usually for sex appeal.
    • He’d been labeled “gay” in my mind from the beginning. It wasn’t like he was a swishy queen. He was a muscle queen. Don’t muscle queens pass for straight? Our waitress at the Bluebird had flirted with him. She hadn’t seen him as gay.2002, Greg Herren, chapter 16, in Murder in the Rue Dauphine, Alyson Books, page 151
  2. (broadly) A man who is attracted to bodybuilders or muscular men.
    • I’ve got it,” said Dave. “You’re a muscle queen.”
      You mean I'm sort of a hunk? I think I’ve got quite a ways to go,” I demurred.
      “No, I mean you crave them muscles. I can see those pretty green eyes of yours bug out when you see some bulky, misshapen things at the gym that I would toss out of bed...1989, David B. Feinberg, chapter 8, in Eighty-Sixed, Viking Penguin, page 93

Forms of muscle-queen

pluralmuscle-queens

Questions about muscle-queen

What is muscle-queen the alternative spelling of?
Muscle-queen is the alternative spelling of muscle queen.

Words near muscle-queen in the dictionary

  1. muscle women
  2. muscle worship
  3. muscle-bound
  4. muscle-eye-brain disease
  5. muscle-prism
  6. muscle-queen
  7. muscle-queens
  8. muscle-up
  9. muscle-ups
  10. musclebike
  11. musclebikes

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