queerdar

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US/ˈkwiɹdɑɹ/

noun

The supposed ability to detect whether or not a person is queer by observing that person.

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Meanings

nounqueerdar (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe supposed ability to detect whether or not a person is queer by observing that person.

    maybe she's bi? she sure tingles my queerdar in a big way.

    1993 October 6, Peggy Boucher Murphy, “Re: Paula Poundstone?”, in soc.motss (Usenet)
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    During that march, my queerdar was on full throttle. I saw HRC equality and rainbow stickers all over the place.

    2004, Rick Hoffman, account of the March for Women's Lives, Memorandum from the Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians, Number 46, Summer 2004, page 3

    Are there such things as 'gaydar' or 'queerdar'? That is to say, do some individuals possess an uncanny ability to recognise someone or something as gay or queer and to acknowledge it publicly, […]

    2009, Jason Edwards, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Routledge, →ISBN, page 46

Origin

From queer + -dar.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

radqueer
Cite this entry
APA

queerdar. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/queerdar

MLA

“queerdar.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/queerdar. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “queerdar,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/queerdar.

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