dick lit
dick lit noun: literature which appeals to, or is marketed toward, male readers.
Noun
dick lit (uncountable)
- Literature which appeals to, or is marketed toward, male readers.
- "I am really tired of reading about sad women and bad sex, especially in laddish terms - all that dick-lit stuff," she says dismissively.2002 October 13, Jackie McGlone, “To hold but not to have”, in Scotland on Sunday
- She knew that he read books. Okay, so it was that trendy kind of real-life adventure-tragedy-on-Everest-in-Antarctica-in-Krakatoa-with-sharks-with-fire stuff. Sure, it was Dick Lit (a term Nina had coined in response to Chick Lit), but they were books, for god's sake, and not just the sports or...2004, Leslie Schur, The Dog Walker, Atria Books, →ISBN
- Synonyms:
- manfiction
Synonyms of dick lit
Origin of dick lit
dick (“penis”) + lit (“literature”), as a play on chick lit.
Questions about dick lit
- What does dick lit mean?
- Dick lit means literature which appeals to, or is marketed toward, male readers.
- What part of speech is dick lit?
- Dick lit is a noun.
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