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  • Blog The New Gay called Grindr the "biggest change in gay hookups since the 'hanky code'".

    Grindr app goes straight – but there are different rules for women 2011

  • Roberto Arango, a Republican who represents the capital of San Juan in the Senate of Puerto Rico, abruptly quit this weekend after local media published photos of a man resembling Arango in sexually suggestive poses from a gay-only app called Grindr.

    NY Daily News 2011

  • The trailblazer among these services is Grindr, which is geared toward gay men and has signed up 2.6 million members in the year and a half that it has been in business.

    NYT > Home Page By JENNA WORTHAM 2011

  • The app is the little brother of existing app called Grindr which was aimed at the gay community which currently had 2.6 million users worldwide.

    Reuters: Press Release 2011

  • According to court documents, Lont met the teen on a cell phone application called "Grindr."

    Homepage CP Container 2012

  • Roberto Arango, a Republican who represents the capital of San Juan in the Senate of Puerto Rico, abruptly quit this weekend after local media published photos of a man resembling Arango in sexually suggestive poses from a gay-only app called Grindr.

    NY Daily News 2011

  • There happens to be a new facility called Grindr (no misspelling), an app with photographs and details which, at the touch of an icon can tell you how close to you another gay user of Grindr is.

    Daily News & Analysis 2010

  • A new application, called Grindr, uses GPS technology to allow anyone with a smartphone to pinpoint potential opportunities for romance as they pass by on the street.

    Daily News & Analysis 2010

  • I love in your act that you touch on how technology has been making us all emotionally retarded, between email, IM'ing, Facebook, Grindr, Twitter, people never put down their godamned cell phones.

    Greg Garry: Sandra Bernhard: Bigmouth Strikes Again Greg Garry 2011

  • When I arrived in India a little over six weeks ago, one of the first things I did don't judge me was fire up Grindr - the Gay GPS application that shows you the proximity of the nearest homosexuals.

    Adrien Field: Gay in Delhi Adrien Field 2011

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  • The most popular gay dating application for smartphones, based on location only (you can't refine your search). I heard it used as a verb already.

    Also known as "dick GPS".

    July 25, 2011

  • How do you know if your smartphone is gay?

    July 26, 2011

  • I found pictures of it on guyswithiphones.

    July 26, 2011

  • *facepalm*

    July 28, 2011

  • Ha ha.

    July 28, 2011