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geekdar

noun

Etymology

From geek + -dar.

Definitions

  1. The ability to detect whether or not a person is a geek.

    • 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.
    • 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).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for geekdar. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA