Phrase Hound found 21 phrases and 60 compound words that contain lad. The most common are listed below. Open lad in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 21
- Jack the ladAn irresponsible young man, seeking personal pleasure and gratification without any regard to responsibilities; a rogue.
- lad litMale-authored popular novels about young men and their emotional and personal lives.
- new ladA sexist young man who embraces traditional male attitudes.
- lad cultureA subculture which arose in the United Kingdom in the 1990s, centered around traditional working-class male attitudes and interests, often in rejection of the perceived strictures of feminism or the concept of the New Man.
- lad magA magazine aimed at young men, typically containing suggestive photographs of female models and articles about cars, tools, music, film, sport, and sexual encounters.
- currency ladA native-born white male Australian of the first generation.
- stable ladSynonym of lad (“a groom who works with horses”).
- lad magsplural of lad mag: A magazine aimed at young men, typically containing suggestive photographs of female models and articles about cars, tools, music, film, sport, and sexual encounters.
- Yule ladOne of several trolls, children of the ogress Grýla, who, according to Icelandic folktales, arrive one each day from December 12th through December 25, and leave one each night from December 25 through January 6. The Yule lads are …
- fellow-me-ladA young man.
- bad-lad splita phonemic split of the phoneme /æ/ into a short /æ/ and a long /æː/, as heard in some varieties of British and Australian English, in which "bad" is pronounced /bæːd/ and "lad" is pronounced /læd/
- likely ladA young man who shows potential.
- mad ladA male who engages in unusual and/or dangerous behavior, typically in a light-hearted manner.
- signal ladA young man employed in a signalbox to record the times of trains as they pass through the area served by the signalbox.
- flat ladA craneman working with tubs and flats.
- head ladA person employed to manage a stable of racehorses.
- lavender ladA homosexual male.
- feller-me-ladAlternative form of fellermelad: A term of address for a young man.
- booking ladA young male employee in a signal box who records the movement of trains past the box.
- follow-me-ladA curl of a young woman's hair arranged to trail over her shoulder.
- lad of waxA male cobbler (shoe repairer).
Compound words 60
- GoodladA surname transferred from the nickname.
- madladSomeone (either male or of unspecified gender) who does something particularly impressive and audacious.
- fellermeladA term of address for a young man.
- ladlikeResembling or characteristic of a lad.
- merladA young male merperson, male equivalent of mermaid
- ladhoodThe state or condition of being a lad
- ladlitAlternative form of lad lit: Male-authored popular novels about young men and their emotional and personal lives.
- ladsySynonym of laddish: Like a stereotypical Jack the lad: boorish, reckless, inclined to binge drinking, etc.
- ladkinA little lad.
- laddessA young woman.