Citations:Spidey-sense

English citations of spidey-sense, spidey-senses, spidey sense, spidey senses, Spidey-sense, and Spidey-senses

Noun: "(humorous) An intuitive feeling, usually of something being dangerous or risky; (more generally) instinct, intuition."

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• 2003, Matthew F. Winn, chapter 1, in The Sandman, College Station, Tex.: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing, →ISBN, page 5:

  Having known the man for most of his life he had a certain Spidey-sense when it came to Tim’s problems.

• 2004 December, Victoria Laurie, Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye (A Psychic Eye Mystery)‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: Signet, New American Library, →ISBN:

  Abby, let me ask you this: Is your spidey sense sure Alison was killed by a man? Your other clues were that 'he' was short, wore oversized clothing, and had dark hair. What if Alison was killed by a butch-looking female?

• 2005, Dave Zirin, “Stir of Echoes: A New Sporting Resistance?”, in What’s My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United States, Chicago, Ill.: Haymarket Books, →ISBN, page 259:

  But the sports media elite, eating free press box sushi while the rest of us are paying $9.00 for a hot dog, could never understand what set our collective spidey senses tingling.

• 2005, Victoria Laurie, A Vision of Murder, A Psychic Eye Mystery, Penguin, →ISBN, page 103:

  It was then that I felt something coming into the room, and my spidey-sense said that it wasn't happy with our discovery

• 2007, Bill Gaston, Midnight Hockey, All About Beer, the Boys, and the Real Canadian Game, Random House, →ISBN, page 276:

  But the bitch shifted his blocker for a sudden different grip on his stick, and with my Spidey sense I could see he was going for the poke check.

• 2007 January 22, Ken Cuperus, “Submersion”, Stargate Atlantis, season 3, episode 18, The Movie Network

  McKay: Maybe on another ship nearby. […] Teyla's Spidey sense works for miles.

• 2008, Rick Dibiasio, The Affluent Artist: How Creative Could You Be If Money Wasn't an Issue?, p. 92:

  I'm going to tell you in no particular order about some investment ideas that should make your Spidey Senses tingle.

• 2009, Chloe Neill, Some Girls Bite, Chicagoland Vampires Novels, Penguin, →ISBN, book 1, page 45:

  I chuckled. “Even if I had a spidey sense, I wouldn't know how to use it.”

• 2009 Rod Blake, "Spidey Senses Tingling", A Global Shift in Favour of Nuclear Energy, Resource World Magazine Inc., p. 25:

  With apologies to Spiderman, my spidey senses are tingling.

• 2009, “Top Ten Ways to Shut Down Hackers”, in Securing Intellectual Property: Protecting Trade Secrets and Other Information Assets, Burlington, Mass., Oxford, Oxfordshire: Butterworth-Heinemann; Syngress, →ISBN, page 153:

  Don't settle for taking the world at face value. Too many people see a logo or a uniform and make bad assumptions. If your Spidey-sense tells you something's wrong, it probably is. If you don't have Spidey-sense, walk loudly and carry a big stick.

• 2010, Maria Lima, Blood Heat, Blood Lines, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 275:

  Though my spidey-sense kept tingling, the words just below his spoken words slid from my awareness like water down a rock face.

• 2010, Lori Armstrong, No Mercy, A Mystery, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 109:

  “Let's just say my spidey sense is tingling.”

• 2010, Tate Hallaway [pseudonym; Lyda Morehouse], Honeymoon of the Dead‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, →ISBN:

  A sense of foreboding, almost like a Spidey-sense, tingled at the back of my neck.

• 2011, Jessica Andersen, Storm Kissed: A Novel of the Nightkeepers:

  Unless your Spidey senses are seriously long-range, you're going to need help finding Keban.

• 2013, Claudia Mair Burney, Death, Deceit & Some Smooth Jazz, p. 114:

  I was ready to offer him yet another lame apology when my spidey senses kicked in and my gaze went to the door.

• 2014, K. L. Brady, The Bum Magnet, p. 103:

  My spidey senses tell me something isn't quite right.

• 2018 March 10, Brad Bagwell, chapter 1, in The Hunter: Southeast Asia, Ishpeming, Mich.: BookVenture Publishing, →ISBN, page 3:

  As I turn to the right to get to the Registration Desk, my spidey senses are starting to warn me. There's nothing I can see that is cause for immediate concern, but I know I've got to keep paying attention to those spidey senses. I know they've saved me in the past.

• 2019 February 27, Fred Zinkie, “Ranking the Safest First-round Picks in Fantasy Baseball Drafts”, in Yahoo! Sports‎^[3], archived from the original on 18 March 2019:

  While we are all enticed by the roller-coaster ride that will come with owning a 21-year-old Ronald Acuna, most of our spidey-senses tell us that a safe player in the first round allows us to survive six months of injuries and ineffectiveness from some of our subsequent picks.