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cray-dar

cray-dar noun: the ability to detect whether or not a person is crazy.

Noun

cray-dar (uncountable)

  1. (slang) The ability to detect whether or not a person is crazy.
    • Someone who likes whips and bondage just as much as you will probably be at the party too; I’m sure your cray-dar will start beeping soon.2012, Catherine Alvarez-McCurdy, "Halloween Costumes: Least To Most Fuckable", The Chicago Shady Dealer (humor magazine of The University of Chicago), Volume 9, Issue 2, 5 November 2012, page 3
    • Turn on your “cray-dar,” Aquarius. While you love an eccentric individual, this week you could magnetize people who are truly off their rockers.2013 October 9, “Zodiac”, in The Valley Beat, number 160, page 26

Origin of cray-dar

From cray (“crazy”) + -dar.

Questions about cray-dar

What does cray-dar mean?
Cray-dar means the ability to detect whether or not a person is crazy.
What part of speech is cray-dar?
Cray-dar is a noun.

Words near cray-dar in the dictionary

  1. Craxi
  2. Craxism
  3. cray
  4. cray cray
  5. cray-cray
  6. cray-dar
  7. craybait
  8. crayboat
  9. crayboats
  10. Craycraft
  11. Craycrafts

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