gender-flipped

adjective

Of a work, having had the gender of a performer or character changed.

Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of gender-flip
adjectivegender-flipped (comparative more gender-flipped, superlative most gender-flipped)

comparative more gender-flipped · superlative most gender-flipped

  1. Of a work, having had the gender of a performer or character changed.

    In 1967, Aretha Franklin released "Respect," a gender-flipped cover of Otis Redding's soul classic.

    2023, Andrea Warner, Rise Up and Sing!: Power, Protest, and Activism in Music, page 132
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    Meyer later released a gender-flipped' version of Twilight, Life and Death, in honour of the tenth anniversary of Twilights release, where heroine Bella and hero Edward became hero Beau and heroine Edythe.

    2018, Armelle Parey, Prequels, Coquels and Sequels in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction, page 228

    When a hero is a gendered female, they are often, in essence, a male character re-packaged in a feminine aesthetic within a gender-flipped narrative.

    2024, George R. Goethals, James K. Beggan, Scott T. Allison, Encyclopedia of Heroism Studies, page 222
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