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gay-dar

gay-dar is the alternative form of gaydar.

Meaning of gaydar

Noun

gaydar (countable and uncountable, plural gaydars)

  1. (LGBTQ slang) The supposed ability to detect whether or not a person is gay by observing that person's appearance, mannerisms, etc.
    • This is not your Hallmark in Ames, Iowa. And there is “family” working there … no radar like gaydar, I always say.1982 July 15, Gloria Goodqueen, “What’s in a card”, in Bay Area Reporter, volume XII, number 28, San Francisco, Calif.: Benro Enterprises, →OCLC, page 7, column 1

Forms of gay-dar

pluralgay-dars

Questions about gay-dar

What is gay-dar the alternative form of?
Gay-dar is the alternative form of gaydar.

Words near gay-dar in the dictionary

  1. gay-bash
  2. gay-bashed
  3. gay-basher
  4. gay-bashes
  5. gay-bashing
  6. gay-dar
  7. gay-dars
  8. gay-feather
  9. gay-feathers
  10. gay-friendlier
  11. gay-friendliest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gay-dar (page history and authors); gaydar (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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