drama queen

plural drama queens

1. derogatoryidiomaticinformalAn overly or exaggeratedly dramatic person, especially a woman or a girl. Or a diva or a narcissist.

   I’ve known quite a few drama queens in my time, and I always have the same thought: She reminds me of junior high. Most girls are drama queens at that age.

   2009, Mark Atteberry, So Much More Than Sexy, Cincinnati, Ohio: Standard Publishing, →ISBN, page 145

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   If he is thwarted in his effort to enjoy them, he may either go to the dogs or the drama queens, become short-tempered, sullen, grouchy and eventually feel that, in a way he is a failure.

   1923 December 10, The Washington Post

   Synonyms: attention whore, DQ

present singular third person drama queens · participle present drama queening · participle past drama queened · past drama queened

1. informalintransitiveuncommonTo behave in an exaggerately dramatic fashion.

   Stop the drama queening. Stop the pity parties. You've maxed out. Look, we all have trouble in our lives but most of us aren't hanging our dirty laundry out there for the whole world to see.

   2017, David Montgomery, Thoughts on the Abundant Life, Primitive Baptist Heritage Corporation / Lulu.com, page 337