flamer

flamer
n
1a.
American
a flagrant or obvious sole-cism or blunder
1b.
American
a person who commits a gaffe or error
Both these sub-senses of the word are campus terms, used especially in preppie jargon.
2.
a flagrant male homosexual, in Ameri-can and Australian slang of the 1970s and 1980s. Since the beginning of the 19th century the word had been employed in British English to refer to something conspicuous.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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