Green’s Dictionary of Slang

an effeminate young boy who attracts, or is supposed to attract older male homosexuals; thus as v., to seek out a homosexual encounter for money.

1961		A. Reiss in Cressey & Ward Delinquency, Crime, and Social Process (1969) 997: Most of my friends queer-bait, but I don’t [...] Ain’t no sense in queer-baitin’; I don’t need the money that bad.
1964		H. Selby Jr Last Exit to Brooklyn 29: She knew he wouldn’t go with her while the others were there, fearing the jeers of queerbait.
1991		P. Cornwell Body of Evidence (1992) 247: One of the queerbaits from the restaurant she wrote about in her letters is dying of AIDS even as we speak.
2008		G. Pelecanos Way Home (2009) 203: I’m a big man [...] but I look like queer bait next to them ABs.

one who specializes in beating up (and usu. robbing) male homosexuals.

1979		J. Rechy Rushes (1981) 28: He disarmed a ‘queer-basher’ ready to lash with a chain at a cowring man.
1986		R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 10: The rain had washed all the baby prostitutes and twangy boys, the chicken hawks and queer bashers, the gonifs and petty grifters off the four corners of Hollywood and Vine.
1989		A. Higgins ‘The Bird I Fancied’ in Helsingør Station and Other Departures 127: The Couch and Hound [...] patronized by queers and queer-bashers.
1991		D. Jarman letter Smiling in Slow Motion (2000) 18: HB has made himself a one-off T-shirt – it says: ‘Queerbashers’ above a photograph of him brandishing a machine-gun; below it the legend: ‘Come and Get It’.
2010		W. Ings ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 58: Those who operate on the streets and in public toilets are especially prone to attack from queer bashers (men who derive pleasure from assaulting perceived homosexuals).

the beating up (and usu. robbing) of male homosexuals.

[1958		W.B. Miller ‘Gang Delinquency’ in Short Gang Delinquency and Delinquent Subcultures (1968) 140: A concern over homosexuality [...] is manifested by the institutionalized practice of baiting ‘queers’ often accompanised by violent physical attacks].
1972		B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular.
1977		D. Powis Signs of Crime 198: Queer bashing Assaulting male homosexuals either for gain or for perverse pleasure.
1981		M. Gee Meg 218: I used to do some queer-bashing myself.
1989		J. Morton Lowspeak.
2000		Observer Screen 30 Jan. 6: Any boy that didn’t respond positively to PE became the subject of a bullying that was queerbashing by any other name.
2003		Guardian G2 19 Aug. 3: I am too old and sanguine by nature to be disturbed by this unseen queer-bashing.
2013		Guardian Culture on Line 1 July 🌐 The line about a friend getting beaten up by queer-bashers was true.

the beating up (and robbery) of homosexual men; thus queer-roller, one who does this.

1964		Lavender Lex. n.p.: dirt:–Hoodlums, tramps, pill pushers, leaches, and sometimes renegade homosexuals; Prospective queer-rollers.
1977		D. Powis Signs of Crime 198: Queer rolling Robbing male homosexuals.

(UK Und.) a passer of counterfeit money.

1888		Missouri Republican 4 Mar. n.p.: The police are looking for the queer-shover [F&H].
1904		Number 1500 Life In Sing Sing 257: Queer Shover. Passer of counterfeit money.
1909		J. Ware Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era.
1939		Howsley Argot: Dict. of Und. Sl.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn).

one who makes or distributes counterfeit money.

1842		Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 15 Oct. n.p.: Call for their wine, pay for it in what is called queer by the queersmen [...] a term applicable to counterfeitr oney by those who dabble in the article.
1872		G.P. Burnham Memoirs of the US Secret Service 63: Fred Biebush steadily followed the traffic of the ‘queersman’ in the west and southwest.

(US Und.) to pass counterfeit money.

1917		Jansas City Sun 1 Dec. 1/1: There is ‘Hoodwinking’ [...] ‘BullCon,’ ‘Heifer Dust,’ ‘Pushing the Queer’ and a score of other vulgar ‘supplants’ of the world deception.
1933		Ersine Und. and Prison Sl.
1950		Goldin et al. DAUL 168/1: Push queer. To pass counterfeit money.

to pass counterfeit money.

1753		J. Poulter Discoveries (1774) 42: I am passing quare Blunt; putting off bad Money.
1822		Commercial Advertiser (N.Y.) 10 Sept. 2/2–3: [He] was seen to take out of his pocket and put down a pocket book [...] One entry ran somewhat as follows:-- ‘N. York, Aug. Rec’d of the Old Man, 300 queers. 6th Shoved -- -- 5. 8th Shoved -- -- 10.’ Hays [...] said, that by queer, among the fraternity, was meant counterfeit money, and the same as cogniac. 300 queers, or cogniac, would therefore read, in English, 300 dollars. By shove [...] was meant to get off a bad bill, without detection.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum 79: ‘Shove queer,’ pass counterfeit money.
1866		Night Side of N.Y. 64: ‘Shoving the queer’ is the craft expression for circulating spurious money.
1872		G.P. Burnham Memoirs of the US Secret Service 91: He had seen him and others ‘shoving the queer’.
1886		L.A. Newcome Post Office Burglars of the Shawangunk Mountains 98: He stated that he had been arrested several times for various offences, the last time — in detective parlance — for shoving of the queer, or in other words, for passing counterfeit money.
1893		St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) 3 Dec. 17/7: ‘Shoving the queer [...] means to pass counterfeit money.
1890		Sporting Times 11 Jan. 1: He was Promptly Given Into Custody for Attempting to Shove the Queer.
1895		C. Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 73: Shove Queer, pass bad money.
1901		Argus (Melbourne) 20 Sept. 6/4: The man who utters it [...] may be either a boodle carrier, a snide-pitcher, or a shovel pitcher while the operation itself is to pitch or to shove queer.
1903		H. Hapgood Autobiog. of a Thief 37: He told us about ‘shoving the queer’.
1916		J. Lait ‘Canada Kid’ in Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 175: Shovin’ two-bit queers—‘Silk’ Tavannes, the silk-lined terror o’ the rural boob.
1919		C.S. Montanye ‘The Man Who Never Forgot’ in Detective Story 17 Dec. 🌐 A waiter, who made passing the queer a side issue.
1924		G. Henderson Keys to Crookdom 414: Shoving queer – passing false currency.
1933		Ersine Und. and Prison Sl.
1938		J.B. Booth Sporting Times 24: The Old Gentleman [...] was Promptly given into Custody for Attempting to Shove the Queer.
1939		Howsley Argot: Dict. of Und. Sl. 37: passing the queer – see ‘shoving the queer’.
1945		T. Thursday ‘You Gotta Have Luck’ in Popular Sports Jan. 🌐 The clerk examines the tenner and finds it is a counterfeit. As you know, we’ve had quite a bit of queer shoving in town lately.
1952		‘I Was a Pickpocket’ in C. Hamilton Men of the Und. 76: He told us about ‘shoving the queer’.
1962		Ragen & Finston World’s Toughest Prison 817: shoving the queer – Passing counterfeit money, checks or money orders.