read someone's beads

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read someone's beads (third-person singular simple present reads someone's beads, present participle reading someone's beads, simple past and past participle 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.