Defn of gay as a 3 dollar bill the Idms Dictnary. gay as a 3 dollar bill phrase. What do gay as a 3 dollar bill exprsn mean? Defns by the largt Idm Dictnary.
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GAYER THAN A THREE-DOLLAR BILL
Queer As a What? May 7, 2014 In a recent terview about a fascatg-lookg telephone-hotle documentary, phone psychic and mercial star Ms. Cleo revealed that she’s not jt gay — “I’m as gay... * gayer than a 2 dollar bill *
Fely or obvly homosexual.
Cleo revealed that she’s not jt gay — “I’m as gay as a two dollar bill, ” she clared. Cleo Com to Hot Docs: ‘I’m Gay As a Two Dollar Bill’” IndieWire, May 1, 2014]Really? There’s nothg gay, straight, or generally sexual about a $2 bill, as far as I n Cleo giv a fe example of the bastardizatn of the anachronistic phrase “queer as a three-dollar bill.
“Queer as a three-dollar bill”:phony as a three-dollar bill and queer as a three-dollar bill: Go to (as) phony as a three-dollar bill Defely or obvly homosexual. (Dictnary of Amerin Slang and Colloquial Exprsns)Olr term that means extremely strange but is ually heard reference to a gay person.
(AS) GAY AS A THREE-DOLLAR BILL
* gayer than a 2 dollar bill *
Although queer had been employed to mean “gay” for que a while, appears to have picked up mastream age only the fal quarter of the twentieth century — the same perd which the $2 bill was retroduced to circulatn (1976). ” It appears that wh a ncentrated perd of time, Amerins began g the terms queer and two-dollar bill a lot more (even while the $2 bill was shroud mystery and uncertaty, as remas) manglg of the phrase had another proment appearance last year, when Sherri Shepherd of The View uttered the quote “gayer than a gay two-dollar bill.