A Dictionary of Epithets and Terms of Address
Used to address a radar officer in the Royal Navy in Sylvester, by Edward Hyams.
The term would now suggest to a wide audience the nickname of Radar O’Reilly, the character in the long-running television series M.A.S.H. starring Alan Alda as Hawkeye Pierce. Gary Burghoff played the part of Radar, so-named for his uncanny ability to know before anyone else what was going to happen next, to ‘hear’ things before anyone else heard them.
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