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      [Noun]  | "radar detector" 


      1: a device designed to alert the operator of a vehicle when it has been targeted by a radar beam (as from a police officer's radar gun)

      2: radar gun


      Origin: 1960 ;

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       [ "radar detector" ]

      1: A device that can be installed into your car. Use it to easily spot cops within a few miles depending on the quality of your radar. Highly illegal in most states.

        * e.g.,  ... With out my radar detector, I would have had my license suspended by now. 

       [ "Radar Detector" ]

      1: When a car is driving ahead of you and just a little faster than you.

        * e.g.,  ... See that red car up there? He's my radar detector. That Toyota just got pulled over, I had better slow down until I find myself another radar detector. 

       [ "Ukrainian Radar Detector" ]

      1: Ukrainian Radar Detector (noun): A speeding vehicle which when followed, acts as a radar detector for the vehicle behind it, by being detected at radar traps and pulled over, thus allowing the following vehicle to pass the radar trap. Etymology: -The premodifier "Ukrainian" is in place to denote the low-budget, hack-job, ghettoness of using a "Ukrainian radar detector" -The head of the noun, "radar detector" is used ironically in that the vehicle does not actually detect radar waves, but simply distracts the police for the vehicle behind it.

        * e.g.,  ... Driver: "There's a speed trap ahead, we'd better follow another speeder so he can be our Ukrainian radar detector." 

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