diff --git a/src/plugins/clangcodemodel/clangdclient.cpp b/src/plugins/clangcodemodel/clangdclient.cpp
index effe6a1f760..d0a54042df9 100644
--- a/src/plugins/clangcodemodel/clangdclient.cpp
+++ b/src/plugins/clangcodemodel/clangdclient.cpp
@@ -2706,8 +2706,9 @@ static void semanticHighlighter(QFutureInterface<HighlightingResult> &future,
                     const AstNode n = firstChildTree.takeFirst();
                     const QString detail = n.detail().value_or(QString());
                     if (detail.startsWith("operator")) {
-                        return !detail.contains('=') && !detail.contains("++")
-                                && !detail.contains("--");
+                        return !detail.contains('=')
+                                && !detail.contains("++") && !detail.contains("--")
+                                && !detail.contains("<<") && !detail.contains(">>");
                     }
                     firstChildTree << n.children().value_or(QList<AstNode>());
                 }
diff --git a/src/plugins/clangcodemodel/test/clangdtests.cpp b/src/plugins/clangcodemodel/test/clangdtests.cpp
index d03fcc2c896..6efddf7c20a 100644
--- a/src/plugins/clangcodemodel/test/clangdtests.cpp
+++ b/src/plugins/clangcodemodel/test/clangdtests.cpp
@@ -1295,6 +1295,9 @@ void ClangdTestHighlighting::test_data()
     QTest::newRow("keywords: true") << 920 << 15 << 920 << 19 << QList<int>{C_KEYWORD} << 0;
     QTest::newRow("keywords: false") << 921 << 15 << 921 << 20 << QList<int>{C_KEYWORD} << 0;
     QTest::newRow("keywords: nullptr") << 922 << 15 << 922 << 22 << QList<int>{C_KEYWORD} << 0;
+    QTest::newRow("operator<<") << 934 << 10 << 934 << 14 << QList<int>{C_GLOBAL} << 0;
+    QTest::newRow("operator>>") << 936 << 10 << 936 << 13 << QList<int>{C_GLOBAL} << 0;
+    QTest::newRow("operator>>") << 936 << 17 << 936 << 18 << QList<int>{C_LOCAL} << 0;
 }
 
 void ClangdTestHighlighting::test()
diff --git a/src/plugins/clangcodemodel/test/data/highlighting/highlighting.cpp b/src/plugins/clangcodemodel/test/data/highlighting/highlighting.cpp
index c54dfe13710..40a4ef23b4c 100644
--- a/src/plugins/clangcodemodel/test/data/highlighting/highlighting.cpp
+++ b/src/plugins/clangcodemodel/test/data/highlighting/highlighting.cpp
@@ -921,3 +921,17 @@ void keywords()
     bool b2 = false;
     void *p = nullptr;
 }
+
+namespace std {
+struct Debug {};
+Debug& operator<<(Debug &dbg, int) { return dbg; }
+Debug& operator>>(Debug &dbg, int&) { return dbg; }
+static Debug cout;
+static Debug cin;
+}
+void outputOperator()
+{
+    std::cout << 0;
+    int i;
+    std::cin >> i;
+}