Meaning

1 senses

  1. (slang)To behave in a submissively appeasing, accommodating, overly flattering, or flamboyant way, especially when excited.

    After the concert, I totally queened out when I met Cher in person backstage.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. The queen held out her hand, and the old woman examined its lines closely.

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Forms

queens out, queening out, queened out, queened out
Base formqueen out · to queen out
3rd person singularqueens out
Present participlequeening out
Past simplequeened out
Past participlequeened out

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyqueen out
he, she, itqueens out

Past simpleLesson

all personsqueened out

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave queened out
he, she, ithas queened out

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill queen out

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
quayqueasyqueenA2queerB2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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