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queer-bash

queer-bash verb: to commit violence against (a queer person) for reasons of prejudice.

Verb

queer-bash (third-person singular simple present queer-bashes, present participle queer-bashing, simple past and past participle queer-bashed)

  1. To commit violence against (a queer person) for reasons of prejudice.
  2. To verbally malign a queer person or queer people in general.
    • A National Committee member of the Socialist Workers Party queer-bashed the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), according to the Sydney Gay Solidarity Group. In a burst of temper, the SWP National Committee member said that if he had his way he would line up members of NAMBLA and...1983 April 23, Sue Hyde, “NAMBLA bashed at Marx Centenary”, in Gay Community News, page 2

Forms of queer-bash

third-person singular presentqueer-bashes
present participlequeer-bashing
past participlequeer-bashed
pastqueer-bashed

Questions about queer-bash

What does queer-bash mean?
Queer-bash means to commit violence against (a queer person) for reasons of prejudice.
What part of speech is queer-bash?
Queer-bash is a verb.
What is the past tense of queer-bash?
The past tense of queer-bash is queer-bashed.

Words near queer-bash in the dictionary

  1. queer studies
  2. queer theoretical
  3. queer theory
  4. queer up
  5. queer-baiting
  6. queer-bash
  7. queer-bashed
  8. queer-bashes
  9. queer-bashing
  10. queerable
  11. queerantagonism

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