drag queen
Noun
Meaning
drag queen (plural drag queens)
(LGBT, originally slang) A person, usually male, who dresses up in women’s clothing and makeup, typically in an exaggerated fashion and for public performance.
Synonyms: female impersonator, (dated) street queen
Hypernyms: transvestite; see also Thesaurus:transvestite
Hyponyms: butch queen, fishy queen
Coordinate term: drag king
Alternative names
drag-queen
Synonyms
Examples
It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.
I quite love sequins; I think it's the drag queen in me.
(About Joe Jackson) First of all, he's sitting there with the pimp hat, and the tattooed drag queen eyebrows. Like maybe this whole time, he just has a separate drag character that he does at night.........named La Toya!
If I hadn't been a woman, I'd be a drag queen for sure. I like all that flair and I'd be dressing up in them high heels and putting on the big hair. I'd be like Ru Paul.
I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.
I think that Vegas is one of the wildest places I've ever been to. You can look to your left and there's a drag queen getting married by Elvis, to the right there is some old bird sticking quarters into a slot machine for hours.