˜yĐÄvlog

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gaydar

[ gey-dahr ]

noun

Informal.
  1. a person's purported intuitive or sensing ability to identify gay people.


gaydar

/ ˈɥ±đÉȘ»ćɑː /

noun

  1. informal.
    the supposed ability of a homosexual person to recognize whether another person is homosexual
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yĐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of gaydar1

First recorded in 1980–85; gay ( def ) + (ra)dar ( def )
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˜yĐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of gaydar1

C20 from gay + ( ra ) dar
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Example Sentences

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I’m not sure what the straight equivalent of gaydar is — “straightdar” just doesn’t have the same ring — but I am pretty sure I don’t have it.

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Even though my gaydar immediately found the queers in the room.

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He also fronted a show on sister station Scala Radio, and helped launch the UK's first LGBT+ station Gaydar Radio, as creative director in 2001.

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While Perry quietly rages against his new role as the defender of the petit bourgeois and Della entertains the offer of a date from a woman she encounters at a restaurant — whose gaydar, it seems, is next-gen — the case that will seemingly dominate the season unfolds.

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It’s hard to know whether she was conscious of it — gaydar? — but in retrospect, it reflects a feminist understanding that homophobia is an element of the misogyny she herself had faced.

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