Usually means: Identity outside traditional gender norms.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word queer:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. queer: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. queer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. queer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. queer: Collins English Dictionary
  5. queer: Vocabulary.com
  6. queer: Wordnik
  7. queer: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. queer: Wiktionary
  9. queer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. queer: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. queer: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Queer, queer: Dictionary.com
  13. queer: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. queer: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Queer (Garbage song), Queer (Thompson Twins album), Queer (disambiguation), Queer (novel), Queer (song), Queer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Queer: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. queer: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. queer: Rhymezone
  19. queer: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. queer: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Queer: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. queer: Free Dictionary
  23. queer: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. queer: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. queer: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. queer: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. queer: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. queer, queer, queer, queer: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. queer: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Queer: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

(Note: See queered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  (dated outside Ireland, Scotland and England) Weird, odd, or different; whimsical.
adjective:  (British, informal, dated) Slightly unwell (mainly in "to feel queer").
adjective:  (British, slang) Drunk.
adjective:  (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) Homosexual.
adjective:  (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) Non-heterosexual or non-cisgender: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc.
adjective:  (broadly) Pertaining to sexual or gender behaviour or identity which does not conform to conventional heterosexual or cisgender norms, assumptions etc.
noun:  (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities.
noun:  (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A person of any non-heterosexual sexuality or sexual identity.
noun:  (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A person of any genderqueer identity.
noun:  (definite, with "the", informal, archaic) Counterfeit money.
verb:  (transitive, dated) To render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null.
verb:  (UK, dialect, dated) To puzzle.
verb:  (slang, dated) To ridicule; to banter; to rally.
verb:  (slang, dated) To spoil the effect or success of, as by ridicule; to throw a wet blanket on; to spoil.
verb:  (social sciences) To reevaluate or reinterpret (a work) with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender, as by applying queer theory.
verb:  (slang, LGBT, neologism) To make a work more appealing or attractive to LGBT people, such as by not having strict genders for playable characters.
adverb:  Queerly.
adverb:  (Ireland) Very, extremely.

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