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lads

nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//lædz//

A group of friends, regardless of gender. Often the lads.

noun

  1. 1

    A group of friends, regardless of gender. Often the lads.

    Me and the lads have had a meeting in the bar and decided it's first-class family entertainment.

    I loved saying lads . . . like I was a comrade . . . like I was one of them ... me and the lads . . . alright lads, eh ... Italy, no problem .

  2. 2

    Also a form of ladplural of lad

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Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).