cray-dar

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.84 in modern English

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noun

Slang; Uncountable

"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."
"Turn on your “cray-dar,” Aquarius. While you love an eccentric individual, this week you could magnetize people who are truly off their rockers."
"[…] You put him right in the crosshairs of my mother's cray-dar, and I suspect he'll be keeping a very low profile for a while.”"

From cray (“crazy”) + -dar.

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