1. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae
   "Schools of scad are often caught by commercial fishermen"
    
2. [N. Amer, informal] (often followed by ‘of’) a large number, amount or extent
   "a scad of letters";
   - batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle [archaic], mountain, muckle, passel [US], peck, pile [informal], plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack [informal], tidy sum, wad, bunch [informal]
    
3. [informal] A large amount or number
   "We have scads of time before the deadline"

Derived forms: scads

Type of: carangid, carangid fish, large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity

Part of: Carangidae, family Carangidae

Encyclopedia: Scad