"geekdar" meaning in All languages combined

See geekdar on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Etymology: From geek + -dar. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|geek|dar}} geek + -dar Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} geekdar (uncountable)
  1. (slang) The ability to detect whether or not a person is a geek. Tags: slang, uncountable
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "geek",
        "3": "dar"
      },
      "expansion": "geek + -dar",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From geek + -dar.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "geekdar (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -dar",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1996 October 28, Steven Levine, “Geekdar (Was: Re: \"STR8 Acting\" is just that....(NOT!))”, in soc.motss (Usenet):",
          "text": "This gaydar/geekdar confusion got completely out of hand at the LISA/USENIX conference in Chicago a few weeks ago. While there is certainly a gay presence at all levels at this conference, it is not, in fact, a motss.con.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005 March 6, googlegroups2sucks [username], “Re: A Question about Buddhism in the United States”, in talk.religion.buddhism (Usenet):",
          "text": "quite the reverse, and if they want to argue socialization fine, but let's talk about that particular behemoth before we talk about other sexist undercurrents, because it's the rare woman who doesn't have a geekdar on alert 24/7 in her subconscious ready to blink red at the slightest hint of abnormality and urges them to say, \"get a life\" without any regard for the flipside benefits such as expertise, competence, excellence that they may posess^([sic]).",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 September 29, Daniel Dreibelbis, “It Might Get Loud - short film review”, in alt.guitar (Usenet):",
          "text": "Plus my geekdar noticed the MacBook running Ableton Live that he uses for demo writing these days (earlier in the film he pulls out his old 4-track cassette recorder and plays old U2 demos).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The ability to detect whether or not a person is a geek."
      ],
      "id": "en-geekdar-en-noun-G6lazEN0",
      "links": [
        [
          "geek",
          "geek"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) The ability to detect whether or not a person is a geek."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "geekdar"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "geek",
        "3": "dar"
      },
      "expansion": "geek + -dar",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From geek + -dar.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "geekdar (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English slang",
        "English terms suffixed with -dar",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1996 October 28, Steven Levine, “Geekdar (Was: Re: \"STR8 Acting\" is just that....(NOT!))”, in soc.motss (Usenet):",
          "text": "This gaydar/geekdar confusion got completely out of hand at the LISA/USENIX conference in Chicago a few weeks ago. While there is certainly a gay presence at all levels at this conference, it is not, in fact, a motss.con.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005 March 6, googlegroups2sucks [username], “Re: A Question about Buddhism in the United States”, in talk.religion.buddhism (Usenet):",
          "text": "quite the reverse, and if they want to argue socialization fine, but let's talk about that particular behemoth before we talk about other sexist undercurrents, because it's the rare woman who doesn't have a geekdar on alert 24/7 in her subconscious ready to blink red at the slightest hint of abnormality and urges them to say, \"get a life\" without any regard for the flipside benefits such as expertise, competence, excellence that they may posess^([sic]).",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 September 29, Daniel Dreibelbis, “It Might Get Loud - short film review”, in alt.guitar (Usenet):",
          "text": "Plus my geekdar noticed the MacBook running Ableton Live that he uses for demo writing these days (earlier in the film he pulls out his old 4-track cassette recorder and plays old U2 demos).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The ability to detect whether or not a person is a geek."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "geek",
          "geek"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) The ability to detect whether or not a person is a geek."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "geekdar"
}

Download raw JSONL data for geekdar meaning in All languages combined (2.1kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.