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Chad
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- 1 I had West-Country, contraction, obsolete
"Chad et in my meend, and zo chave still. Bet chawnt drow et out bevore tha begen'st agen, and than chell."
- 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.""
- 2 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."
- 3 The British version of the "Kilroy was here" graffiti. British
- 4 Lake Chad (a freshwater lake at the junction of Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon in Central Africa).
- 1 A very handsome, usually tall man whom women find sexually attractive; at times seen as an alpha male of a group. Internet
"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."
- 2 Small pieces of paper punched out from the edges of continuous stationery, or from ballot papers, paper tape, punched cards, etc. uncountable
"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 Alternative spelling of Chad (“alpha-male; a virile man”). Internet, alt-of, alternative
- 4 a family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa wordnet
- 5 One of these pieces of paper. countable
"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."
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- 6 a small piece of paper that is supposed to be removed when a hole is punched in a card or paper tape wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English Chadde, from Old English Ċeadda, of obscure meaning; name of a seventh-century Anglo-Saxon saint, revived in the 20th century. The sense of “alpha male” originates from an apparent stereotype that men with such a name tend to bear that temperament, first attested in c. late 1990s in Chicago, Illinois (specifically "successful white man, yuppie"), but in common usage only as of the late 2010s via 4chan slang.
From Middle English Chadde, from Old English Ċeadda, of obscure meaning; name of a seventh-century Anglo-Saxon saint, revived in the 20th century. The sense of “alpha male” originates from an apparent stereotype that men with such a name tend to bear that temperament, first attested in c. late 1990s in Chicago, Illinois (specifically "successful white man, yuppie"), but in common usage only as of the late 2010s via 4chan slang.
Believed to be from Kanuri tsade (“lake”). The country is named after the lake.
Uncertain; possibly from the English slang term chat (“louse”). The word predates the chadless punch, which therefore cannot be its origin, and a derivation from Scots chad (“river gravel”) stated in some dictionaries is now thought to be nothing more than guesswork.
From ch- + had, from ich + had.
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