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comparative more laddish, superlative most laddish
(Britain) Like a stereotypical Jack the lad: boorish, reckless, inclined to binge drinking, etc. quotations examples
[…] versions of a laddish or protest heterosexual masculinity […]
2003, Linda McDowell, Redundant Masculinities?: Employment Change and White Working Class Youth
This underachievement is linked to a laddish culture […]
2006, Carolyn Jackson, Lads and Ladettes in School: Gender and a Fear of Failure