shirt-lifter
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An offensive term for a homosexual male. Mary was furious at Jason for referring to her gay friend as a shirt-lifter.
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My old friend Jim Davidson has just come under fire for calling Brian Dowling a shirt-lifter. In the damage-limitation exercise that followed him being kicked off Hell's Kitchen, he described himself as being an un-PC fossil.
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