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queer as a three dollar bill

queer as a three dollar bill adjective: synonym of phony as a three-dollar bill.

Adjective

queer as a three dollar bill (not comparable)

  1. Synonym of phony as a three-dollar bill.
    • MADDOX / We had a phony doctor come in from Chicago, just as phony and as queer as a three dollar bill.1990, Dan H. Christian, Inside the J.F.K. Conspiracy, [Santa Barbara, Calif.]: Prevailing Winds Research, →OCLC, page 72
    • While shrilly blowing whistles and setting off marine fog horns, they began scattering queer—as in “queer-as-a-three-dollar-bill”—money, phony 100s, 50s and 10s created by the activist artists group Gran Fury, down onto the floor of The Exchange, the backs of the bills reading: FUCK YOUR...1992, Michael Rumaker, To Kill a Cardinal, [Rocky Mount, N.C.]: Arthur Mann Kaye, →ISBN, page 37
  2. Synonym of queer as a clockwork orange.

Synonyms of queer as a three dollar bill

Forms of queer as a three dollar bill

alternative formqueer as a three-dollar bill

Origin of queer as a three dollar bill

Since three-dollar bills do not exist.

Questions about queer as a three dollar bill

What does queer as a three dollar bill mean?
Queer as a three dollar bill means synonym of phony as a three-dollar bill.
What part of speech is queer as a three dollar bill?
Queer as a three dollar bill is an adjective.

Words near queer as a three dollar bill in the dictionary

  1. queer anarchist
  2. queer anarchists
  3. queer as a clockwork orange
  4. queer as a coot
  5. queer as a nine bob note
  6. queer as a three dollar bill
  7. queer as a three-dollar bill
  8. queer as Dick's hatband
  9. queer baiting
  10. queer basher
  11. queer bashing

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