read someone's beadsとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

read someone's beads (三人称単数 現在形 reads someone's beads, 現在分詞 reading someone's beads, 過去形および過去分詞形 read someone's beads)

1. (dated, transitive, gay slang) To read someone; to call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.
   • 1976-1977, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure

     He began to read our beads saying he's observed us often & he sees J as "a villain," not very flexible or open & a cynical person. But he sees me as a man with a sense of humor, much more open to different things, that J can't adjust to change.