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queercore

queercore noun: a subculture of young, rebellious homosexuals that was an offshoot of the punk movement of the 1980s.

Noun (1)

queercore (uncountable)

  1. A subculture of young, rebellious homosexuals that was an offshoot of the punk movement of the 1980s.
    Synonyms:
    homocore
  2. The aggressive rock music associated with this group of people.

Noun (2) capitalized: Queercore

Queercore (uncountable)

  1. (alternative) Alternative spelling of queercore.

Synonyms of queercore

Origin of queercore

From queer + -core.

Questions about queercore

What does queercore mean?
Queercore means a subculture of young, rebellious homosexuals that was an offshoot of the punk movement of the 1980s.
What part of speech is queercore?
Queercore is a noun.

Words near queercore in the dictionary

  1. queerbaitiest
  2. queerbaiting
  3. queerbaits
  4. queerbaity
  5. queercoded
  6. queercore
  7. queercrip
  8. queercrips
  9. queerdar
  10. queerdo
  11. queerdom

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Adapted from Wiktionary: queercore (page history and authors); Queercore (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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