queer ken

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From queer (weird; odd) + ken (house).

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queer ken (plural queer kens)

  1. (dated, UK, thieves' cant and Polari) A prison.
    • 2015 October 12, Adam Lowe, “Poem of the week: Vada That”, in The Guardian[1]:
      Fact is, / she’ll end up in the charpering carsey / of Jennifer Justice. What is this / queer ken she’s in?
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:queer ken.

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