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granddad

nouncommon in dialogue

grandfather

noun

  1. 1

    informalgrandfather

  2. 2

    A familiar or disparaging term of address to an old man.

    Hey! Get out of my way, granddad!

Etymology

From grand- + dad (“father”).

Forms

plural
granddads
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).