throw shade
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[edit]Etymology
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Verb
[edit]throwshade(third-person singular simple presentthrows shade,present participlethrowing shade,simple pastthrew shade,past participlethrown shade)
- (originallyLGBTQslang)Tosubtlyinsultsomeone.
- 1994,bell hooks,chapter 7, inOutlaw Culture: Resisting Representations:
- To begin with, I need to make it clear to those who don’t know that thethrowing-shade,dissin’, “reading” style that carried Miss Camille to fame was a persona she assembled after years of ethnographically studying the mannerisms of vernacular black culture, especially black gay sub-culture, and most especially the culture of the black queen.
- 2018July 17, “Queen Elizabeth may have thrown shade at President Trump with her brooches”, inAOL[2]:
- And while the meeting made headlines in other ways -- like when POTUS left the queen waiting for 10 minutes on live TV as he was running late -- no one picked up on the subtleshadeQueen Elizabeth may havethrownat Trump on three separate occasions.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seethrow,shade.
- 1951,The Architectural Forum[3],volume94,page187:
- First we pick out an overhang which willthrow shademost of this time, but at the same time will not cast too much shade during those hours which are not overheated.
- 1994,Frances Tenenbaum,Taylor's Guide to Shade Gardening[4],page 1:
- A neighbor once asked me to remove a tree thatthrew shadeonto his plot.
Translations
[edit]to subtly insult someone
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- “throw shade”,inOneLook Dictionary Search.