granddaddy
Noun
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Noun
granddaddy (plural granddaddies)
- (informal) A grandfather.
- (informal) Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
- 1957 December, All Hands, issues 480-491, page 24:
- The nature of this gas enables it to absorb the majority of the sun's ultraviolet rays, thus saving the human race from the granddaddy of all sunburns.
- 2007, W. Randall Jones, Julie M. Fenster, The Greatest Stock Picks of All Time, Crown Business (ISBN 9780307422071), page 245:
- In the far corner, representing the twentieth century, is the granddaddy of all common stocks, AT&T. Here is a company that earned its place in the pantheon of great stocks simply by increasing its dividend for an absurdly long period of time.
- 2010, Sean Michael Flynn, Land of the Radioactive Midnight Sun: A Cheechako's First Year in Alaska, Macmillan (ISBN 9781429973977), page 129:
- The region, with its twenty-two hours of summer daylight, is now known for its giant vegetables that include six-foot-wide cauliflower, eighteen-pound carrots, fifty-pound celery, and the granddaddy of all giant vegetables, the Alaskan cabbage ...
- 2012, Earl Fee, The Wonder of It All, Trafford Publishing (ISBN 9781466944749), page 173:
- A hundred years from now or two-hundred years from now they will speak of this tsunami of all tsunami's— the granddaddy of all tsunami's.
- 1957 December, All Hands, issues 480-491, page 24:
- (grandfather) gramps, pops
- (most significant thing) mother (as mother of all), father, grandfather, grandmammy
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