queer

IPA: kwˈɪr

(colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities.
(colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A person of any non-heterosexual sexuality or sexual identity.
(colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A person of any genderqueer identity.
(definite, with "the", informal, archaic) Counterfeit money.

(transitive, dated) To render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null.
(UK, dialect, dated) To puzzle.
(slang, dated) To ridicule; to banter; to rally.
(slang, dated) To spoil the effect or success of, as by ridicule; to throw a wet blanket on; to spoil.
(social sciences) To reevaluate or reinterpret (a work) with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender, as by applying queer theory.
(slang, LGBT, neologism) To make a work more appealing or attractive to LGBT people, such as by not having strict genders for playable characters.

(dated outside Ireland, Scotland and England) Weird, odd, or different; whimsical.
(Britain, informal, dated) Slightly unwell (mainly in "to feel queer").
(Britain, slang) Drunk.
(colloquial, sometimes derogatory) Homosexual.
(colloquial, sometimes derogatory) Non-heterosexual or non-cisgender: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc.
(broadly) Pertaining to sexual or gender behaviour or identity which does not conform to conventional heterosexual or cisgender norms, assumptions etc.

Examples of "queer" in Sentences

How queer theory does so can be seen by looking at the term ˜queer™ itself.
She feels the word queer implies that there is some discrepancy in her desires.
"Well he _were_ a queer bear -- a _queer_ un -- th '_queerest_ I ever hear tell about.
The term "queer" was once an epithet, before gays and lesbians deliberately repatriated it for themselves.
Though one could manage that if it wasn't for her queer temper -- _queer_ indeed! queer's no word for it. "
In 1997, the word queer and all its consistently vague connotations had yet to be introduced into my lexicon.
With this in mind (in my opinion), legacy and new LGBT media should reflect in it's coverage that the term queer community isn't interchangeable with term LGBT community
For example, queer theorists usually argue that one of the advantages of the term ˜queer™ is that it thereby includes transsexuals, sado-masochists, and other marginalized sexualities.
I remember the first high school teacher who, without using the term queer theory, explained the idea that classic texts and films had subtexts that reflected non-normative experiences and that we could find something of our own experiences by looking a little closer.