drag king

English

Etymology

drag (“men's clothing worn by women”) +‎ king, by analogy with drag queen. First use appears c. 1954 in the newspaper National City News (California).

Noun

drag king (plural drag kings)

a group of seated drag kings

(colloquial, LGBT) A person, usually female, who dresses up in men's clothing, typically in an exaggerated fashion and for public performance.
- 1973, Abstracts in Anthropology, volume 4, Google Books:
  Part of an ongoing ethnography of an imperial sovereign court I am undertaking, this chapter explores the world of the lesbian drag king and the gendered performance she undertakes in this realm.

Hypernyms

transvestite

Coordinate terms

drag queen

Translations

female who dresses up in men's clothing

Esperanto: dragreĝo
French: drag king (fr)
Georgian: დრაგ-კინგი (drag-ḳingi)
Hungarian: férfiimitátor

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