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Meaning of gym queen | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A gay man who spends a lot of time at the gym, usually in order to maintain a muscular physique.
    derogatory, slang
  2. Alternative letter-case form of gym queen.
    alt-of, derogatory, rare, slang

Examples

“‘He smiled crookedly at me as if I was a gym queen with medium-length feathered blonde hair and a toothpaste commercial smile. “Neither am I,” he said.”
“Scott figured Zoltan weighed 190 pounds, give or take. And they were the best placed 190 pounds you could imagine. He had wide, muscular shoulders and strong thighs, and filled out perfectly, not overly ripped like some gym queens but more like a natural athlete.”
“David could pull off a few push-ups in his cell, but he was never a gym queen before and didn't even know what to do with the weights”
“At that moment a gym queen strode past in a thong and sleeveless T-shirt. Brad’s eyes wandered over the man’s flawless physique. Cinder shot him a glance. “Fashion Rule Number One: a thong is always wrong,” he stated categorically. “Remember that, handsome.””
“Gay men who work out a lot are often referred to as muscle queens or gym queens and, if they fly around the country to dance all night to circuit techno music, circuit queens. Wealthy gays who often dress in preppy styles are sometimes known as A-gays, and gay men into leather are leathermen.”
“Waves of the so-called Gym Queens march by, buffed to perfection through a never-ending devotion to their bodies, their mirrors, Special K, and Ecstasy.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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