Meanings
plural grandbigs
- university slangA big of a big; a sorority member who has herself mentored a mentor.
Tessa Bradlie Souffrant posted "My grandbig and her mom are missing while she is abroad in New Zealand".
2016 April 30, “Missing American hikers found safe”, in Newstalk ZB2 more examples
Your Greek roots go back further than those old letter T-shirts your grandbig gave you. Since Greek life was established at GW more than 150 years ago, sororities and fraternities have become a part of University history, now making up a third of our campus population.
2014 September 11, Alissa Varghese, Eva Palmer, “Throwback: Greeks in national, University history”, in The GW HatchetEvery Little is assigned a Big to mentor them, and it's the Big's job to show them how things are done. Every Big has a Grandbig who is over the Big, and then there's the Great Grandbig, the—" "Let me guess," I said. "The Mac Daddy of them all." "I prefer Mac Mother, but yes, you get the idea."
2021, Cheryl Bradshaw, Little Lost SecretsAntonyms: grandlittle
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA big of a big; a sorority member who has herself mentored a mentor.
Origin
From grand- + big, by analogy with familial relationships such as grandmother.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
grandbig. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grandbig
“grandbig.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grandbig. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “grandbig,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grandbig.
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