title: Gay deceiver
text: # Gay deceiver
  
  Gay deceiver may refer to:
  
  * A sentient car/aircraft/time machine character in the 1980 Robert Heinlein novel The Number of the Beast
  * A highwayman (as in, e.g., one of the lyrics sets for the Irish ballad "Whiskey in the Jar")
  
  ## Film and music
  
  * The Gay Deceiver, a 1926 lost film
  * The Gay Deceivers, a 1969 gay-themed comedy film
  * "La engañadora" ("The Gay Deceiver"), a cha-cha-chá written by Enrique Jorrín (1953)
  * A lyric of Dan Emmett's song "Dixie" is "Old Miss Mary "Will the Weaver" William was a gay deceiver"
  
  ## Fashion
  
  * A type of bustle worn by Western ladies from 1870 to about 1905.
  