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A male given name from Old English. Also a modern nickname for Charles, Chadwick and similar-sounding names quotations examples
"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."
1993, Jonathan Kellerman, Devil's Waltz, Random House, published 1998, page 26
'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.'
1995, Hanif Kureishi, The Black Album, Faber and Faber, pages 88, 90
(Britain) The British version of the "Kilroy was here" graffiti. examples
plural Chads
(Internet slang, seduction community, incel slang) A very handsome, usually tall, man whom women find sexually attractive; at times seen as an alpha male of a group. quotations
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.
2018 April 25, Alex Hern, “Who are the 'incels' and how do they relate to Toronto van attack?”, in The Guardian
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.
2018 April 28, Kate Wilson, “Last week in tech: sex robots”, in The Georgia Straight
A country in Central Africa. Official name: Republic of Chad. examples
Lake Chad (a freshwater lake at the junction of Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon in Central Africa). examples