Definition of "gargantua" [gargantua]

• A person of great size or stature and of voracious physical or intellectual appetites. (noun)

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• "Tartikoff didn't apologize for his failures, because he appreciated that network TV was a many-faced gargantua, spewing out equal parts sublime and ridiculous."
• "I stayed until that female gargantua threw me into the transporter beams."
• "Forum God / Goddess gargantua » Sun Jan 11, 2009 8: 05 pm"