Citations:weirdar

English citations of weirdar

• 1997 March 26, piranha, “RANT: Things that I hate about being single in the '90s”, in soc.singles.moderated‎^[1] (Usenet):

  "safe" as in "doesn't give me the heebie-jeebies" (which might have nothing to do with actual safety, but with my comfort level in zir presence), sure, i do that with every stranger, male or female. and if my weirdar beeps, i remove myself from zir presence.

• 2000 September 24, No User, “Mouseplanet Improving”, in alt.disney.disneyland‎^[2] (Usenet):

  > Uh huh....another nut. Bye.
  Hello. It takes one to know one. ;-) We have weirdar and you're showing up very clearly, Jon.

• 2014, Brinda Berry, The Waiting Booth‎^[3], Sweet Biscuit Publishing, →ISBN:

  My scalp prickled and my internal weirdar blinked Warning. Warning. Danger. Danger.
  I squinted because the more I looked—really looked—at him, the more I saw there was something not quite normal about him.

• 2017, Erin McCarthy, Silence of the Ghost‎^[4], →ISBN:

  I really needed to listen to my weirdar. You know, that radar that goes off inside you when someone is a freak?