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laddish ‎(comparative more laddish, superlative most laddish)

(Britain) 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 Failure
  This underachievement is linked to a laddish culture […]