All 5 Uses of

queue

in

1984, by Orwell

In the low-ceilinged canteen, deep underground, the lunch queue jerked slowly forward.
p. 48.1

queue = line of people

The queue edged forward till Winston was almost at the counter, then was held up for two minutes because someone in front was complaining that he had not received his tablet of saccharine.
p. 111.8

The person immediately ahead of him in the queue was a small, swiftly-moving, beetle-like man with a flat face and tiny, suspicious eyes.
p. 112.4

He remembered ... the enormous queues outside the bakeries, the intermittent machine-gun fire in the distance — above all, the fact that there was never enough to eat.
p. 161.0 *

queues = lines of people

Definitions:

(1) (queue as in: in the queue)
a line of people waiting for something; or anything (such as computer tasks) that are lined up to be handled in order

Queue, in the sense of a line of people is more often used in Great Britain than in the United States.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Much more rarely, queue can refer to a pigtail (a braid of hair worn hanging at the back) as in "At that time in history, the Manchus forced the Han Chinese to adopt the Manchu queue hairstyle."