fag-bait v.
(US gay) of a heterosexual male, to tease and harass a homosexual.
 | Gov’t Inspected meat 43: [H]e had said (we used to travel into Chicago and check into the Turkish baths and let the faggots go down on us) that I enjoyed the game of fag-baiting too much and insinuated that I loved him in that way. | |
| Meat 150: Has anyone ever bullied or suspected or fag-baited you? Not yet [Simes:DLSS]. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Hide & Seek 242: Kosta’s got his hooks in, fag-baiting for spectator sport [Simes:DLSS]. | |
| Model/Escort 102: Harp was able [...] to quell a considerable amount of subtle fag-baiting in the student body. |
In derivatives
(US gay) one who harasses and teases homosexual males.
| 2nd Amer. Revolution 178: [T]he mischievous effect that Epstein’s piece might have on those fag-baiters who read it. | |
| Glory Hole Murders 121: Eddis was the dirtiest fag baiter on the New Orleans vice squad [Simes:DLSS]. | |
| Epistemology of the Closet 245: [A]ll of the fag - baiters I read about seem to have personal reasons for their attacks. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Smiling in Slow Motion: Kournals 1991-94 [ebook] She could hardly be termed a fag hag - that unpleasant epithet from the strangled past – but she could be called a fag baiter , a Russian matador who circled round you and stuck in skewers. | |
| Vermilion ‘ [ebook] [T]hey were fag-baiters, and they beat him up, and killed him’. |
(US gay) verbal or physical harassment or victimization of a homosexual man or men.
| (ed.) The Realist vols. 84-938/1: [W]ondering how to get out of the place [...] and still not bring down derision upon me from all the potbellied fag-baiting barflies. | |
| Political Trials 166: One reporter calleed Foran’s cross-examination of Ginsberg a form of fag baiting. | |
| Male Body 192: Fag-baiting may have been one of the normal ways to attack a potential enemy and solicit audience approval at the same time. | |
| Courage to Connect 123: Young people fearing fag baiting were reluctant to wear Provincetown sweatshirts. |