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queen_bee

queen bee

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queen bee (plural queen bees)

  1. A reproductive female (especially the only one) in a colony of bees.
    • 1947, AI Root, The ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture, Kessinger 2005, p. 205:
      It is generally believed that the queen bee mates only once in her lifetime.
  2. (idiomatic, colloquial) The most important or dominant woman in an organisation or situation.
    • 2003, Jim Hatfield, Extra Marital Temptations, iUniverse 2003, p. 28:
      She muttered to her mother, “There's that obnoxious redhead who thought she was the Queen Bee last year when she was a senior!”

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