# gigachad
## English
### Alternative forms

* Gigachad, GigaChad

### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

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### Noun

gigachad (plural gigachads)
* (slang, originally incel 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?
** 2015 November 8, 4chan‎, /b/, archived from the original on 2024-02-16:>wearing raybans cause its a private wealthyfag school >looks are on GigaChad level >bitch is mirin
** 2020, anonymous, quoted in Annie Jones, "Incels and the Manosphere: Tracking Men's Movements Online", thesis submitted to the University of Central Florida, page 76:
    A forum commenter applied this definition to a woman he saw on social media, "…the foid [woman] had all the gigastacy [rated 10 on the scale] traits, she was hot, blonde, wore makeup, wears skimpy clothes, popular, parties, and her boyfriend is a muscular bodybuilder gigachad."
** 2020, Nate Gallagher, "The Blackpill and the Suffering Apparatus: Science, Masculinity, and Race as Represented on Involuntary Celibate (Incel) Virtual Forums", thesis submitted to Dartmouth College, page 62:
    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."
** 2021, anonymous, quoted in Hugo Engholm, "The lack of looks: A study on the Incel ideology of Incelism during the 2010s–2020s and its relation to historical and contemporary ideologies particularly within far right milieus", thesis submitted to the University of Uppsala, page 58:
    if you were a foid with the infinite SMV [Sexual market value] that having eggs grants, and every guy on the planet wanted to fuck you, and getting fucked by chads is the biggest source of happiness chemicals possible, wouldn’t you also get fucked by gigachads all day long?
* (by extension, Internet slang, sometimes sarcastic) An extremely admirable man; a Chad among Chads.
    I heard Robert just donated $500 to Team Trees. What an absolute gigachad!
** 2022 March 27, Olivia Richman, “Doublelift calls Tarik "gigachad" for condemning JasonR's sexist behavior”, in Inven Global‎, archived from the original on 2024-02-05:I have a lot of respect to Tarik for being a gigachad.
** 2022 April 18, RJ Pierce, “Legendary 'Elden Ring' Player 'Let Me Solo Her' Is Now Immortalized In A Mod”, in Tech Times‎, archived from the original on 2023-03-25:As per his IGN interview, LMSH took 242 tries to beat Malenia on his own. After this, he just decided that no other player has to suffer the same fate he did. What an absolute GigaChad.
** 2022 October 5, Kenneth Williams, “HooXi just outfragged the rest of G2 against Ecstatic”, in WIN.gg‎, archived from the original on 2023-09-25: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. In an RMR match against Ecstatic, HooXi scored an insane HLTV rating of 2.21.

#### Related terms

* Chad
* Chadlite

### References

* ↑ “GigaChad”, in Know Your Meme, website first launched 2007

### Anagrams

* Haggadic, haggadic