Definition of drama queen
: a person given to often excessively emotional performances or reactions
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The actor has booked a recurring role on USA Network's summer drama Queen of the South.
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Sign up your little drama queens (and kings) up for acting classes with First Stage. 45.
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Flacco could have been as outspoken as Pittsburgh’s drama queen quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, who questioned the team’s decision to draft Oklahoma State quarterback Mason Rudolph in the third round.
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All of which is superseded, of course, by not being such a drama queen cowboy, cooling your jets, and calling the cops instead.
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Most of the piece focuses on trying to stay calm and accept the kinds of semi-innocent drama queens and low-level troublemakers that populate any office environment.
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Oyelowo worked with the Disney on last year's chess drama Queen of Katwe, and will next be seen Doug Liman's sci-fi thriller Chaos Walking and the Blumhouse production Only You.
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Macy’s created a line based on Adrian’s costumes for MGM’s 17th-century drama Queen Christina (1933) starring Garbo.
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First Known Use of drama queen
1923
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Definition of drama queen for English Language Learners
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: a person (especially a woman) who acts as though things are much worse than they really are
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