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queen

2 verb
     
Related topics: Board Games
queen2 [transitive]
1 technicalDGB to change a pawn into a queen in the game of chess
2

queen it over somebody

British English informal if a woman queens it over other people, she behaves as if she is more important than them, in an annoying way
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