Gaydar
[gey-dahr] /ˈgeɪ dɑr/
noun, Informal.
1.
a person’s purported intuitive or sensing ability to identify homosexuals.
/ˈɡeɪdɑː/
noun
1.
(informal) the supposed ability of a homosexual person to recognize whether another person is homosexual
noun
an intuition about whether someone is homosexual; a homosexual person’s ability to identify other homosexuals through intuition or interpretation of signals
Word Origin
1992; gay + radar
Usage Note
slang
n.
by 1996, in gay literature, from gay + radar.
noun
An internal detector of gay people; a sense of whether someone is gay or not: gaydar on high alert in Provincetown
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