• Laddish

    Full definition of laddish

    Adjective

    laddish

    1. (British) Like a stereotypical jack the lad: boorish, reckless, inclined to binge drinking, etc.
      • 2003, Linda McDowell, Redundant Masculinities?: Employment Change and White Working Class Youth...versions of a laddish or protest heterosexual masculinity...
      • 2006, Carolyn Jackson, Lads and Ladettes in School: Gender and a Fear of FailureThis underachievement is linked to a laddish culture...
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