Meaning of beauty queen | Babel Free

Definitions

The female winner of a beauty contest.

idiomatic

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Examples

“[A]s a moose-hunting former beauty queen, [Sarah] Palin is a kooky character – precisely the sort of person a producer would home in on at the auditions like a dog sniffing meat.”

“Having been a former high school cheerleader and beauty queen, Birdee is remembered by everyone and pitied for her embarrassment on "ambush" television.”

“2014, Elle Lee Strauss, Clockwise […] up along the wall, in cliques. The brains along one side, the artsies in the corner, the beauty queens near the punch bowl so everyone would have to look at how pretty they were when they got a drink, […]”

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