smear the queer

(dated) Mentally unsound; odd; crazy.

(simile) Strange, odd, unusual. / (simile) Unusually camp, unusually homosexual.

(chiefly Britain, idiomatic) To make a task more difficult for someone.

(colloquial, dated, possibly offensive) Very queer: very unusual or strange.

simple past tense and past participle of queer someone's pitch

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of queer someone's pitch

present participle of queer someone's pitch

(simile, colloquial, Yorkshire, Lancashire) Nothing is as strange as people can be; people can behave very oddly sometimes.

(dated) In a queer (strange) manner. / (uncommon) In a queer way (a way not conforming to conventional heterosexual norms), or in a way consistent with queer theory.