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1. figurativelyhumorousoftenThe female of the species Tyrannosaurus rex.

   […]was restored Tyrannosaurus regina.

   1984, Country Life, page 1096

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   In olden days man fought Tyrannosaurus rex; nowadays he battles Tyrannosaurus regina—his wife.

   1965 January 22, “Time Listings”, in Time: The Weekly Newsmagazine, volume 85, number 4, page 2

   A survey published last week found that only five per cent of the men in the entire labour force have wives who don’t work. After I’d read that, I stood in front of the mirror. And there she was, outlined in the twilight, a rare glimpse of a large mammalian female on the verge of extinction. Too big in the body, too little in the head, Tyrannosaurus Regina. We shall not see her ilk again.

   1981 December 23, [Jill Tweedie], “All I ask, Mary, is when you visit, throw me a cream bun, OK: Letters from a fainthearted feminist”, in The Guardian, London; Manchester, page 8

   For 99.9% of the Cretaceous week, tyrannosaurus rex would kill anything that moved, eat anything that didn’t, break up the landscape, laugh at its own lousy jokes, belch, scratch, snore, pull the hairs out of its nostrils, and go to lodge meetings. In the five hebdomadal minutes remaining (usually on Saturday night), it would suddenly leap on tyrannosaurus regina with terrible ineptitude.

   1982 July 21, Alan Coren, “A Short History”, in Punch, volume 283, number 7392, page 77

   Yet there we were, helplessly and snugly surrounded by Soup’s hoop, with an old rope snaking upward, ending in the clenched fists of the meanest kid in our solar system . . . Janice Riker, the inhuman replica of Tyrannosaurus Regina.

   1990, Robert Newton Peck, Soup’s Hoop, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 6

   When we went to the movies, we saw one of two things: dinosaurs, or a film in which women dressed as men or men dressed as women. In short, it was the year of Tyrannosaurus Regina.

   1993 December 26, Jay Stone, “1993: Everything that could go wrong …”, in The Ottawa Citizen, page F1

   1. capitalizedfigurativelyhumorousoftenUsed as a name.

      […]in adolescence the developing dinosaur is entrusted to Miss Tyrannosaurus Regina whose long life and virginity ensure her authority:[…]

      1978, Evan Zimroth, Giselle Considers Her Future, Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, →ISBN, page 45

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      “As for the relationship between my mother-in-law and us. The gentlemen of the press have speculated that the Queen — or Tyrannosaurus Regina, as we affectionately call her sometimes . . .”

      1985 November 7, Pete McMartin, “It’s tough being top people”, in The Sun, volume 99, number 306, Vancouver, B.C., page five

      Wake up from your history dream of echoing terror screams and share your song name with these lost children so I open my eyes to see Her glowing face and her sweet song rings my heart so alive I leap and twirl and somersault clapping my hands in drumming rhythm on tingling spine handsprings of hope to catch up with angels running swift in fluttering robes through tangled forests of grumbling oaks as we dodge dinosaur legs through endless halls of Jewel Cathedral where Tyrannosaurus Regina Demon Queen sits on Lotus Disk that twirls petal propellers to soar among stars over our small world.

      2017, Simon Albert Craig Seamount, Gothiniad, →ISBN, page 267

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1. figurativelyhumorousoftenA female Tyrannosaurus rex.

   Does the disgruntled majordomo have nothing nice to say about this tyrannosaurus regina?

   1991 March 23, Fern Brooks, “Marlo Thomas ‘Princess of Pain’: Former servant takes his revenge on glamor family”, in Calgary Herald, page E10

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   It’s Tyrannosaurus rex, the largest flesh-eating animal that ever thunked across the earth.[…]It’s made of chicken wire, plastic and rags dipped in gooey glue.[…]Meanwhile, he is in the school, probably looking for a Tyrannosaurus regina.

   1971 April 29, Kathleen Bowman, “Thunk! A monster is born: Little fingers fashion a Tyrannosaurus rex”, in Enquirer and News, Battle Creek, Mich., page A-12

   Her [Sandra Weintraub’s] next project is a remake of “The Lost World,” the classic about a hidden valley where dinosaurs still exist. Maybe she’ll make the Tyrannosaurus Rex into a Tyrannosaurus Regina.

   1983 April 3, Eleanor Ringel, “Papa makes write choice”, in The Atlanta Journal □ The Atlanta Constitution, page 1-H

   All that image-building and reputation-slaying in the name of democracy, and at the end of it another four years in opposition to the Tory Tyrannosaurus Regina.

   1987, Maureen Lipman, Something To Fall Back On, Robson Books, →ISBN, page 185

   When I bat my eyelashes, monks spew away their last chances at Heaven! Nuns and junkies give up their habits for me! I drove the Whore of Babylon out of business! Astarte invented aphrodisiacs just to keep up with me! I am a mink in heat, I am a Tyrannosaurus Regina on the make, I make Jaws look like a Small-Mouthed Bass!

   1989, Magistra Batrix/Magus Coyote, “Brag of the Female SubGenius”, in The Stark Fist of Removal, volume 17, No. 41 & 42, The SubGenius Foundation, Inc., pages 44–45

   Did you notice how when Tyrannosaurus Regina Thatcher, armed with her memoirs, began to stalk Calamity John Major through the political jungle, not only did they wheel out ‘Tarzan’ Heseltine to come to his aid but also the Conservative answer to Mills and Boon — Lord Jeffrey Archer?

   1993 October 14, Olivia W Lockerbie, “Finlay isn’t a mole, he’s an albatross!”, in The Galloway News, page 9