chad

name

1. A male given name from Old English; also a modern nickname for Charles, Chadwick and similar-sounding names.

   “"What else? Anyway, here's the genealogy: Charles Junior's only son is Charles the Third - like royalty. He goes by Chip - Cassie's daddy. The mom is Cindy. The dead son was Chad - Charles the Fourth." "All Cs," I said. "Sounds like they like order."”

   “'He used to be called Trevor Buss.' 'Chad? I don't believe you.' […] 'He changed his name into Muhammad Shahabuddin Ali-Shah.' 'No!' 'He'd insist on the whole name. He played football and his mates got fed up saying, "Pass the ball, Muhammad Shahabuddin Ali-Shah" […] No one passed to him. So he became Chad.'”

   “The scene gave the company’s president, Chad Hartmann, a glimmer of hope amid the chaos that ensued after Tuesday's raid purged roughly half of his staff — many of whom had been longtime employees of the company, which has been processing boxed beef for more than 15 years.”

2. (British)The British version of the "Kilroy was here" graffiti.
3. A country in Central Africa. Official name: Republic of Chad.

   “Though foreigners did play some part in fighting as mercenaries for Gadhafi during the bloody Libyan war, the IOM and local leaders in Chad say the vast majority of Chadians, like Mohammed, were working to send remittances home.”

4. Lake Chad (a freshwater lake at the junction of Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon in Central Africa).

noun

1. (Internet)A very handsome, usually tall man whom women find sexually attractive; at times seen as an alpha male of a group.

   “They are united by the fact that women will not have sex with them, usually attributed to shallow obsessions with looks or superficial personality, and by their hatred of “Chads” and “Stacys”, the men and women who have sex.”

   “Short for “female humanoid”, it’s used in place of the word “woman” to depict how, in an incel’s view, women are not entirely human, but are instead robot-like androids who only crave sex with Chads.”

2. (uncountable)Small pieces of paper punched out from the edges of continuous stationery, or from ballot papers, paper tape, punched cards, etc.

   “The keypunch wasn't named after a Mr. Chadless; it was so named because, as expected, it punched tape while producing little or no chad.”

3. (countable)One of these pieces of paper.

   “Prior devices of the type according to the present invention have been arranged to cut out the perforations completely at a single movement, thereby producing chads or waste material which often present difficult problems of disposal.”

   “The small hinged discs of paper, called ‘chad’, remain attached to the body of the tape.”

   “Much of the controversy seems to revolve around ballot cards designed to be perforated by a stylus but which, either through error or deliberate omission, have not been perforated with sufficient precision for a machine to count them. In some cases a piece of the card—a chad—is hanging, say by two corners. In other cases there is no separation at all, just an indentation.”

4. (Internet, alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of Chad (“alpha-male; a virile man”).

contraction

1. (West-Country, contraction, obsolete)I had

   “Chad et in my meend, and zo chave still. Bet chawnt drow et out bevore tha begen'st agen, and than chell.”