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n. Scraps or bits of paper, such as the perforated edges of paper for tractor feed printers or the tiny rectangles punched out from data cards.

n. One of these scraps or bits of paper.

n. Small pieces of paper punched out from the edges of continuous stationery, punched cards, paper tape etc.

n. One of these pieces of paper.

n. See shad.

n. An obsolete form of shad. The name in Cornwall, England, of the young of the common sea-bream, Pagellus centrodontus.

n. A dry twig: same as chat.

n. Dry, bushy fragments found among food. [Prov. Eng. in both senses, usually in plural.]

n. a lake in north central Africa; fed by the Shari river

n. a family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa

n. a small piece of paper that is supposed to be removed when a hole is punched in a card or paper tape

n. a landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa; was under French control until 1960

"Graham notes that the noun was then construed as plural, on the analogy of chaff, but today’s ballot counters are referring to chads, construing the word chad as singular."

lake    african country    african nation   

shad   

dimpled chad    tri-chad    swinging-door chad    pregnant chad    hanging chad   

Brad    Dad    Gad    Mossad    Riyadh    Tad    Thad    ad    add    bad   

sprul    valley    cosplay    thal    suzzane    ballot    hanging-chad    post-college