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  • In fact, the instrument panel on a factory standard Gaydar is broke down into fractional Travolta units.

    BEN STILLER AS JR EWING 2007

  • "Gaydar" -- a pocket-sized lovegetty-style wireless device that lets gay people recognize each other via signals in the aether.

    Boing Boing: October 21, 2001 - October 27, 2001 Archives 2001

  • Two MIT graduates created a software program -- entitled Project "Gaydar" -- that scans Facebook friends lists and supposedly determines, based on association, whether or not a male subject is homosexual.

    Yahoo! News: Technology News 2009

  • "Jernigan and Mistree say they are attempting to get their study, titled Gaydar, published in a scientific journal."

    MIT, tabasco sauce and facebook The Verger 2009

  • "Jernigan and Mistree say they are attempting to get their study, titled Gaydar, published in a scientific journal."

    Archive 2009-10-01 The Verger 2009

  • I've been playing around with coding on the PSP and finally got some stuff to work, so I decided to make my first real piece of homebrew, called Gaydar (gay plus radar).

    unknown title 2008

  • "Gaydar," a word that the OED helpfully points out is a combination of "gay" and "radar," refers to the faculty that enables me to figure out the sexual orientation of a recent acquaintance.

    Are You a Bridezilla? Check the OED Andrew Flynn 2010

  • Who knows maybe there really is something to that so called "Gaydar"?

    New Labour - Tough on crime? Tim Russo. FIDO The Dog 2009

  • Last year the Oxford English Dictionary recognised 'Gaydar' which is 'A homosexual person's ability to identify another person as homosexual by interpreting subtle signals conveyed by their appearance, interests etc.

    TrinidadExpress Today's News 2010

  • "Gaydar" demonstrated that researchers could accurately predict a Facebook user's sexual orientation simply by examining the user's friends-list.

    p2pnet news 2010

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