drag king
nounEtymology From drag (“men's clothing worn by women”) + king, by analogy with drag queen. First use appears c. 1954 in the newspaper National City News (California).
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Colloquial A person, usually female, who dresses up in men's clothing, typically in an exaggerated fashion and for public performance.
- Part of an ongoing ethnography of an imperial sovereign court I am undertaking, this chapter explores the world of the lesbian drag king and the gendered performance she undertakes in this realm.1973, Abstracts in Anthropology, volume 4, Google Books
- Hypernyms
- transvestite
- Coordinate terms
- drag queen