Usually means: A small amount; slightly.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. tad: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tad: Merriam-Webster
  3. tad: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tad: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tad: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tad: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tad, tad: Wordnik
  8. tad: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. TAD, TA'd, TAd, Tad, tad: Wiktionary
  10. tad: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tad: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tad: Dictionary.com
  13. tad: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. tad: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. TAD, Tad (band), Tad (given name), Tad: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. tad: Rhymezone
  17. tad: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  18. tad: FreeDictionary.org
  19. tad: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. tad: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. tad: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  22. tad: Wordnik

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. TAD: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. TAD: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. TAD: Acronym Finder
  3. TAD: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tad, tad, tad: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. T.A.D: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tad: Glossary of Sanskrit Terms in Integral Yoga Literature

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (TAD)

▸ noun:  (informal) A small amount; a little bit.
▸ noun:  (US, slang, dated) A street boy; an urchin.
▸ noun:  A diminutive of the male given name Thaddeus or Thaddaeus.
▸ noun:  (UK, colloquial) Tadcaster.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) Initialism of tobacco, alcohol and drugs. [(uncountable) Any plant of the genus Nicotiana.]
▸ noun:  (countable, veterinary medicine) Initialism of transboundary animal disease.

Similar:
tadge, tidge, ounce, bissel, titch, tittle, little, bittock, lite, tittynope, more...

Opposite:
tadpole

Types:
spotted, wood, spadefoot, climbing, marine, burrowing, natterjack, agua, more...

Phrases:
a tad, Tad Lincoln, Tad Reeves, Tad Williams, Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!, more...

Adjectives:
little, old, young, poor, dear, smartest, wee, demonstrative, pronominal, beloved, ber


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Similar:
tadge, tidge, ounce, bissel, titch, tittle, little, bittock, lite, tittynope, more...

Opposite:
tadpole

Types:
spotted, wood, spadefoot, climbing, marine, burrowing, natterjack, agua, more...

Phrases:
a tad, Tad Lincoln, Tad Reeves, Tad Williams, Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!, Tad Williams bibliography, Tad Hilgenbrink, Tad Stones, Tad the Lost Explorer and the Secret of King Midas, Tad Jude, Tad Devine, more...

Adjectives:
little, old, young, poor, dear, smartest, wee, demonstrative, pronominal, beloved, ber



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