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"ref": "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",
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"ref": "1996, Judy Carter, “Step 3: Find Another Homo”, in The Homo Handbook: Getting in Touch with Your Inner Homo, New York, N.Y.: Fireside Books, Simon & Schuster, page 51",
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"ref": "2013 May 12, Jocelyn Samara DiDomenick, “Comic 368 – January Girls”, in Rain (webcomic), archived from the original on 2022-12-08",
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"ref": "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",
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"ref": "2013 May 12, Jocelyn Samara DiDomenick, “Comic 368 – January Girls”, in Rain (webcomic), archived from the original on 2022-12-08",
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"word": "գեյդար"
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"sense": "supposed ability to detect whether or not a person is gay",
"word": "gaydar"
},
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"word": "гейдар"
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"sense": "supposed ability to detect whether or not a person is gay",
"word": "gay达"
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"word": "homotutka"
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"sense": "supposed ability to detect whether or not a person is gay",
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"sense": "supposed ability to detect whether or not a person is gay",
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"masculine"
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"word": "게이다"
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"lang": "Macedonian",
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"sense": "supposed ability to detect whether or not a person is gay",
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"lang": "Persian",
"sense": "supposed ability to detect whether or not a person is gay",
"word": "گیدار"
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"sense": "supposed ability to detect whether or not a person is gay",
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"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "supposed ability to detect whether or not a person is gay",
"word": "เกย์ดาร์"
},
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"sense": "supposed ability to detect whether or not a person is gay",
"word": "gaydar"
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"sense": "supposed ability to detect whether or not a person is gay",
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{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "supposed ability to detect whether or not a person is gay",
"word": "trực giác nhận biết đồng tính"
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