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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of queer.

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Examples

  • The Davis turn was "queered," as Wilton impressed it.

    CHAPTER XXX 2010

  • President Obama didn't use the correct wordage while reading the suspect his Miranda rights and thus "queered" the case and insured an inevitable mistrial.

    Does Giuliani Have Alzheimer's? 2010

  • President Obama didn't use the correct wordage while reading the suspect his Miranda rights and thus "queered" the case and insured an inevitable mistrial.

    Printing: Does Giuliani Have Alzheimer's? 2010

  • Good Lord, suppose Istra "queered" him at Mrs. Arty's! ...

    Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • Good Lord, suppose Istra "queered" him at Mrs. Arty's! ...

    Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man 1914

  • (We must remember that Grant had to concert action personally with his sub-commanders, as his orders were so often "queered" when seen at Washington by autocratic

    Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray William Charles Henry Wood 1905

  • It requires a mindset that can embrace something other than polarities and binaries (including so-called subverted or queered binaries, which are still binaries if you believe they have a basis in reality).

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  • Of course, he could not pull it off, and in the times since when he did need it, it was too late, for his first failure had queered it.

    Chapter 9 2010

  • But Hiwilani queered that game by threatening to the sorcerer to practice apo leo on him, which is the art of permanently depriving a person of the power of speech without otherwise injuring him.

    SHIN-BONES 2010

  • It requires a mindset that can embrace something other than polarities and binaries (including so-called subverted or queered binaries, which are still binaries if you believe they have a basis in reality).

    Follow The Power, Stupid 2009

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