page_title: RuPaul's Drag Race terminology
section_title: List of terms and definitions
hierarchical_section_title: RuPaul's Drag Race terminology / List of terms and definitions
caption_attribution_description: Capital Pride Festival DC 2018
context_page_description: A number of slang terms have been used on the American reality competition television series RuPaul's Drag Race, in which RuPaul searches for "America's next drag superstar".
  During his 2018 appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, RuPaul described some of the show's terminology to host Stephen Colbert.
context_section_description: Slang terms used on the series have included:
  American dream
  bam: a joyous expression used by Alexis Mateo (season 3; All Stars seasons 1 and 5), originally for season 3's "Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Style" maxi challenge and later repeated by RuPaul
  beat / beat one's face
  best Judies / Judies
  BGB / bye, girl, bye
  big girl: a drag queen who wears plus-size clothing
  booger
  break the dawn
  busted
  Bye Felicia
  chanté, you stay / shantay, you stay / shante, you stay
  charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent
  Chicago
  chicken cutlets: gel inserts used to create cleavage
  choices: a catchphrase used by Tatianna (season 2; All Stars season 2)
  condragulations
  cooking: allowing time for face powder to set
  country realness: "authentic Southern style" and a season 2 runway category
  cucu: Cynthia Lee Fontaine's (seasons 8 and 9) name for the buttocks
  death drop
  drag mother / dragmother
  eat it: a "confident expression" used by Latrice Royale (season 4; All Stars seasons 1 and 4) "when she is feeling fabulous... It essentially means that those around you must accept the fact that you're that great."
  echa pa lante: a catchphrase translating to "go for it" in Spanish, used by Yara Sofia (season 3; All Stars season 1)
  eleganza extravaganza / extravaganza eleganza
  family
  fierce
  fierce jazzercise realness
  fish / fishy
  gag / gagging
  garage doors
  girl / gurl
  go Mary-Kate
  halleloo: an expression of joy or praise used by Shangela (seasons 2 and 3; All Stars season 3) as another way of saying "hallelujah"; the phrase is "impossible to forget" and "without question, the first legitimate catch phrase that came out of this franchise", according to Screen Rant's Bernardo Sim
  heather
  henny: catchphrase popularized by Stacy Layne Matthews (season 3), who returned for the All Stars season 4 episode "Super Girl Groups, Henny!"; outside Drag Race, the term is sometimes used as another way to pronounce "honey"
  hieeee: catchphrase popularized by Alaska Thunderfuck (season 5; All Stars season 2), sometimes said high-pitched; later used by other contestants, as well as RuPaul and Michelle Visage on most episodes of the podcast What's the Tea?
  house
  hunty
  interior illusions lounge: a backstage room where contestants wait during judge deliberations
  kai kai
  ki ki / kiki
  ladyboy: a synonym for a drag queen, and a song by RuPaul performed by season 2 contestants
  leotarded: wearing a bodysuit
  library
  lip sync for your life
  Meryl Streep realness
  Miss Vanjie: a catchphrase made "instantly famous" by Vanessa Vanjie Mateo (seasons 10 and 11) when she repeated the phrase three times while walking backwards during her season 10 sashay away; according to Screen Rant, the catchphrase is "one of the most memorable" in the show's history and how some fans refer to Vanessa Vanjie Mateo
  okurrr
  party: Adore Delano's (season 6; All Stars season 2) catchphrase used "as a reaction to something that was said, and can mean a myriad of things depending on the context"
   
  Pit Crew
  PMP
  purse first: catchphrase used by Bob the Drag Queen (season 8), who later a released a song by this title
  read / reading
  realness
  resting on pretty
  sashay away
  serve
  sexcretary: a "sexy-looking" secretary
  shade
  she done already done had herses
  she owns everything: to be "the one true queen" or "the most fabulous", according to Marie Claire
  sickening
  sissy that walk
  Snatch Game
  snatched
  Soul Train realness
  spilling the tea
  sprepper
  T / tea / tee
  throw shade / throwing shade
  tuck
  two piece and a biscuit: a Popeyes meal option and  Mystique's (season 2) "secret to success"
  werk / work
  who-ho: a "ho" dressed like a Who from Dr. Seuss' fictional town of Whoville
  yas / yas, queen!
caption: Tatianna (center) uses the catchphrase "choices".
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