queens
kweenz
- n a borough of New York City
- n the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
- n a female sovereign ruler
- n the wife or widow of a king
- n something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind
- n a competitor who holds a preeminent position
- n offensive term for an openly homosexual man
- n one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
- n (chess) the most powerful piece
- n an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males
- n female cat
- v promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
- v become a queen
- Of all the queens in Rome's market, none was tougher or shrewder than a tall, thin, hard-jawed woman in her late 20s known as Nannarella.
- A favorite target for the money queens is the alleged penchant of women, especially frivolous single women, to waste money on themselves.
- There have been more than 300 biographies, learned essays by Steinem and Kael, countless documentaries, drag queens, tattoos, Warhol silk screens and porcelain collector's dolls.