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drag

drag

141 8.1
Clothes worn by a person to look like the opposite sex for a show
  • noun
  • /dræɡ/
translation icon : atuendo de mujer
  • Hello and welcome back to the Drag Academy graduation.
  • drag queen

Painting the drag queen of all time, RuPaul.

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Examples

  • What's it like seeing your son in drag?

  • I want to try to do drag makeup.

  • OK, so we do have a drag queen as our guest today.

  • And I think that is especially what Drag Race UK is best at.

  • You look like a drag queen.

  • Look, I might even do the whole thing in drag.

  • My first time in drag was actually on Halloween.

  • I'm also a drag queen.

  • We see the four men in drag, smiling for the flash camera, champagne bottles in hand.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • Last night, I saw a fantastic show featuring a drag performer who wowed the audience with his stunning outfits.

Synonyms

dress
vsdrag
333 1.0

Clothes of a particular style or for a special occasion

is clothing worn to appear as the opposite gender for entertainment
8 1.1

Clothes made for women to wear

is clothing worn by someone of the opposite gender mainly for performance

Idioms

5.5

To be slow on purpose because you do not want to do something

Compounds

main drag
  • Informal
7 5.1

A street in a town where most shops and restaurants are

drag coefficient
  • Specialized
2 8.1

A number showing how easily an object moves through air or water

coefficient of drag
  • Specialized
8.8

A number that shows how much air or water slows an object moving through it

drag-cup motor
  • Specialized
7.8

An electric machine with a cup-shaped metal part that turns around a fixed magnet inside

Very violent and intense, often about a fight or argument

How Theatrical

drag
141 8.1

Surface Forms

drag singular
drags plural

Etymology

One popular story says the noun drag for clothes comes from stage costumes whose long skirts 'dragged' on the floor, so drag came to mean wearing the clothes of the opposite sex and is a helpful image to remember.