cray-dar

English

Etymology

cray (“crazy”) +‎ -dar

Pronunciation

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Noun

cray-dar (uncountable)

1. (slang) The ability to detect whether or not a person is crazy.
   • 2012, Catherine Alvarez-McCurdy, "Halloween Costumes: Least To Most Fuckable", The Chicago Shady Dealer (humor magazine of The University of Chicago), Volume 9, Issue 2, 5 November 2012, page 3:

     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.

   • 2013 October 9, “Zodiac”, in The Valley Beat, number 160, page 26:

     Turn on your “cray-dar,” Aquarius. While you love an eccentric individual, this week you could magnetize people who are truly off their rockers.

   • 2015, Sharon Saracino, Smitten with Death‎^[1], The Wild Rose Press, →ISBN:

     […] 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.”