(British) Male-authored popular novels about young men and their emotional and personal lives.
(British) Male-authored popular novels about young men and their emotional and personal lives.
Publishers have been trying for years to find a winning formula for men's fiction. From lad lit to dad lit to bad lit, men have been barraged with an array of reading matter since Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary stormed up the bes…
"lad lit" means: Male-authored popular novels about young men and their emotional and personal lives.. This is a fairly neutral word with no inherent risk attached. There is no real cause for parental concern; it is descriptive vocabulary rather than something dangerous. If your child uses it, context will usually make the meaning clear. A brief, curious question about where they heard it is generally enough to know whether to follow up.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(slang) Literature perceived to appeal to, or be marketed at, young men or bros, typically concerning violence, adventure, war, and military themes.
(British) A sexist young man who embraces traditional male attitudes.
(UK, informal) A magazine aimed at young men, typically containing suggestive photographs of female models and articles about cars, tools, music, film, sport, and sexual encounters.
A boy or young man.
"lad lit" means: Male-authored popular novels about young men and their emotional and personal lives.. This is a fairly neutral word with no inherent risk attached. There is no real cause for parental concern; it is descriptive vocabulary rather than something dangerous. If your child uses it, context will usually make the meaning clear. A brief, curious question about where they heard it is generally enough to know whether to follow up.
"lad lit" means: Male-authored popular novels about young men and their emotional and personal lives.. Register: neutral, standard English, usable in most everyday contexts. Note the regional or dialect label (British) — usage may sound odd outside that variety. A common non-native mistake is to use the word in the wrong register, or to assume one fixed meaning when it is actually polysemous; always check the surrounding register and the audience before producing it yourself. In formal writing, prefer a neutral synonym or a short descriptive phrase, and use this word only when you have heard or read it being used naturally in a comparable context.
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A familiar term of address for a young man.