Jerkdar

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The ability to detect whether or not a person is a jerk. slang, uncountable

    "Yeah, he's blipped mine, too. But he's beating the hell out of my Dorkdar® and Jerkdar® so much that I can't get an accurate reading from the Gaydar® -- it's such a *sensitive* instrument, you know."

Example

More examples

"Yeah, he's blipped mine, too. But he's beating the hell out of my Dorkdar® and Jerkdar® so much that I can't get an accurate reading from the Gaydar® -- it's such a *sensitive* instrument, you know."

Etymology

From jerk + -dar.

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