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Blend of Chad (“an attractive man”) + catfish (“to create and operate a fake online profile to deceive”), equivalent to Chad + -fish.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: To catfish someone (typically a woman) by creating a fake online profile posing as an attractive man. Full definition →
Blend of Chad (“an attractive man”) + catfish (“to create and operate a fake online profile to deceive”), equivalent to Chad + -fish.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.