1. A marketing technique used to attract queer viewers that involves creating romantic or sexual tension between two same-sex characters but never making it canon or evolving on it
2. when straight men or women pretend to be gay and flirt with people of the same sex as a joke
1. "There is a lot of queerbaiting in shows like Sherlock and Voltron."
2. "I got queerbaited by someone and it really hurt my feelings."
When you begin a quarantine as a heterosexual male, but begin to question your own sexuality after using your time to binge watch the entire 7 season series-run of Gilmore Girls.
“I’m sorry, Rebecca, but the divorce is final. That queerantine really taught me something about myself.”