gigachad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gigachads
form: Gigachad
form: 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.
Senses: examples: text: Coordinate term: gigastacy
text: How can I compete when I get mogged by gigachads as soon as I step outside?
text: >wearing raybans cause its a private wealthyfag school
 >looks are on GigaChad level
 >bitch is mirin
ref: 2015 November 8, 4chan, /b/, archived from the original on 16 Feb 2024:
text: 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."
ref: 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
text: 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."
ref: 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
text: 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?
ref: 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
glosses: An exceptionally handsome man, having an even higher level of attractiveness than a Chad.
examples: text: I heard Robert just donated $500 to Team Trees. What an absolute gigachad!
text: I have a lot of respect to Tarik for being a gigachad.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 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 25 Mar 2023:
text: 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.
ref: 2022 October 5, Kenneth Williams, “HooXi just outfragged the rest of G2 against Ecstatic”, in WIN.gg, archived from the original on 25 Sep 2023:
glosses: An extremely admirable man; a Chad among Chads.
Related terms: Chad
Chadlite