muscle-queen

A form of muscle queen — An especially muscular gay man who works out, usually for sex appeal.

Meanings

nounmuscle-queen (plural muscle-queens)

plural muscle-queens

  1. alternativederogatoryrareslangLGBTAlternative spelling of muscle queen.

    His body is OK. I mean by that he’s not all built up, which I find repulsive anyway, that muscle-queen look. He's got a good body is what I’m saying. And a really hot face.

    2001, James Robert Baker, chapter 1, in Testosterone, Alyson Books, page 10
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    Andy appears in one sequence, wearing a tracksuit and pumping furiously at an exercycle in front of his own giant silk screens of flowers; on the floor, blindly reaching out to him while thrashing around in a ‘sea’ of crumpled cellophane, is the naked muscle-queen who represents ‘the conscience of Prometheus’.

    1997, Colin MacCabe, Mark Francis, Peter Wollen et al., chapter 9, in Who is Andy Warhol?, British Film Institute, page 84

    A couple of dark men in black trunks were standing up, clumsily repelling a big blond muscle-queen who was trying to climb onto the stiffly lurching deck. Two other men who were crouching on the edge fell in, they half threw themselves in, like kids, and then scrambled back to join the assault.

    2005, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 7, in The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, page 162
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