1. An all-purpose insult hurled by sexually naive children.
2. Otherwise, a deliberate term of
abuse (self-appointed public guardians of the language
like Ann Coulter notwithstanding,
see no.
65 above) towards a gay man. When aimed by a straight person at a gay person, terms such as "cocksucker," "faggot," "fag," "dyke" or "homo" are meant to insult, and do. "Queer" can be a little more liberally applied but nonetheless careful writers do not use it to refer to a group other than themselves unless they know the intended recipients of the remark very
well.