"read someone's beads" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: reads someone's beads [present, singular, third-person], reading someone's beads [participle, present], read someone's beads [participle, past], read someone's beads [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|read<,,read> someone's beads}} read someone's beads (third-person singular simple present reads someone's beads, present participle reading someone's beads, simple past and past participle read someone's beads)
  1. (dated, transitive, gay slang) To read someone; to call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way. Tags: dated, slang, transitive
    Sense id: en-read_someone's_beads-en-verb-4F6vW6Ky Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: LGBT

Inflected forms

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