giganto

comparative more giganto · superlative most giganto

1. neologismgiant; gigantic.

   It was a huge giganto embarrassment.

   2006, Susan “Sue” Dunlap, A Single Eye, Carroll & Graf Publishers and →ISBN, page 94

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   it’s hard to order a small chicken salad at a fast-food restaurant if everyone else is getting the Giganto Cheeseburger Deal with a bushel of fries and a gallon of soda.

   2004, Gretchen Becker, Prediabetes, What You Need to Know to Keep Diabetes Away, Marlowe & Company and →ISBN, page 112

   Also, even with her giganto implants, Dani could get through a smaller opening than I.

   2007, Susan Isaacs, Past Perfect, A Novel, Simon and Schuster and →ISBN, page 299

   For some random reason, I think of the doctor at the Eye Guy holding those giganto clicky circles over my eyes when I needed new glasses.

   2007, Susan R. S. K. Carlton, Lobsterland, Macmillan and →ISBN, page 76

1. A giant monster, such as a hypothetical late descendant of Gigantopithecus.

   You're going to kill this innocent Giganto?

   2003 July 13, Ron Weiner, “Spanish Fry”, in Futurama, season 4, episode 17, spoken by Lrrr, via FOX Television Network

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   they are attempting to flesh out this conjectural confrontation between Homo erectus and Giganto, as the creature is affectionately known

   1989, (author and title information kept confidential by Google Books and the University of Michigan), Discover, January–June, volume 10

   describe their search for fossils in Vietnam and their belief that Giganto (as they call it) cohabited with early man.

   1995, Robert Michael Pyle, Where Bigfoot Walks, Crossing the Dark Divide, Houghton Mifflin Books and →ISBN, page 185

   When the Giganto dragged him off the tree, he lay on the ground looking up at the monstrous ape as it roared.

   2000, Lee Murphy and Mariana Malkoskie, Where Legends Roam, Defining Moments and →ISBN, page 160