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gigachad

gigachad noun: an exceptionally handsome man, having an even higher level of attractiveness than a Chad.

Noun (1)

gigachad (plural gigachads)

  1. (slang) An exceptionally handsome man, having an even higher level of attractiveness than a Chad.
    • Coordinate term: gigastacy
    • How can I compete when I get mogged by gigachads as soon as I step outside?
  2. (Internet, broadly, sarcastic, sometimes) An extremely admirable man; a Chad among Chads.
    • I heard Robert just donated $500 to Team Trees. What an absolute gigachad!
    • I have a lot of respect to Tarik for being a gigachad.2022 March 27, Olivia Richman, “Doublelift calls Tarik "gigachad" for condemning JasonR's sexist behavior”, in Inven Global, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2024

Proper noun (1) capitalized: GigaChad

GigaChad

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Gigachad.

Noun (2) capitalized: GigaChad

GigaChad (plural GigaChads)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of gigachad.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Gigachad

Gigachad

  1. (Internet) A nickname for a model from Russia, Ernest Khalimov, often featured in memes derived from several images posted by the Instagram account berlin.1969.
    • Years of Bogdanoff research into genetic augmentation has finally yielded fruit. ¶ Behold, the Gigachad. The perfect human specimen destined to lead us against the reptilians. ¶ We are all witness.2017 October 16, 4chan, /pol/, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2023
    • This gets even weirder, though. Since every photo of him seems to have been taken and released by the artist Krista Sudmalis, whose ongoing "Sleek'N'Tears" project is his lone credit — and there he is exclusively referred to as "1969" — it's fair to suspect that GigaChad is almost entirely...2021 February 1, Miles Klee, “Who Is GigaChad: Meme, Digital Creation or Russian Model?”, in MEL Magazine, archived from the original on 06 Jan 2024

Noun (3) capitalized: Gigachad

Gigachad (plural Gigachads)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of gigachad.

Examples of gigachad in a sentence

  • Those that land in the top 20 percent of the scale earn some variant of “Chad” as a designation, varying from the low-tier "Chadlites" to the ultimate "Gigachad."2020, Nate Gallagher, "The Blackpill and the Suffering Apparatus: Science, Masculinity, and Race as Represented on Involuntary Celibate...
  • His meteoric rise from ironic gigachad to actual gigachad is a huge story in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, but he just one-upped his own reputation.2022 October 5, Kenneth Williams, “HooXi just outfragged the rest of G2 against Ecstatic”, in WIN.gg, archived from the original on 25 Sep...

Forms of gigachad

pluralgigachads
alternative formGigachad
alternative formGigaChad
pluralGigaChads
pluralGigachads

Origin of gigachad

From giga- + Chad (“a very attractive man”). Although isolated uses exist earlier, the term was popularized by an anonymous poster on the 4chan /pol/ board on October 17th, 2017, who referred to Russian model Ernest Khalimov as "Gigachad". See Gigachad for more.

From giga- + Chad. Coined by an anonymous poster on the 4chan /pol/ board on October 17th, 2017, who described Russian model Ernest Khalimov as a "gigachad" who was "the perfect human specimen destined to lead us against the reptilians" (see quotation below).

Questions about gigachad

What does gigachad mean?
Gigachad means an exceptionally handsome man, having an even higher level of attractiveness than a Chad.
How do you use gigachad in a sentence?
Those that land in the top 20 percent of the scale earn some variant of “Chad” as a designation, varying from the low-tier "Chadlites" to the ultimate "Gigachad."
What part of speech is gigachad?
Gigachad can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of gigachad?
The plural of gigachad is gigachads.

Words near gigachad in the dictionary

  1. gigacast
  2. gigacasted
  3. gigacasting
  4. gigacastings
  5. gigacasts
  6. gigachad
  7. gigachads
  8. gigacities
  9. gigacity
  10. gigactonine
  11. gigacycle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gigachad (page history and authors); GigaChad (page history and authors); Gigachad (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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