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lad-lit

lad-lit is the alternative form of lad lit.

Meaning of lad lit

Noun

lad lit (uncountable)

  1. (UK) Male-authored popular novels about young men and their emotional and personal lives.
    • Publishers have been trying for years to find a winning formula for men's fiction. From lad lit to dad lit to bad lit, men have been barraged with an array of reading matter since Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary stormed up the bestseller lists and into our lives in 1997.2004 June 6, Jonathan Heawood, “You couldn't make it up”, in The Observer

Questions about lad-lit

What is lad-lit the alternative form of?
Lad-lit is the alternative form of lad lit.

Words near lad-lit in the dictionary

  1. lad mag
  2. lad mags
  3. lad of wax
  4. lad's love
  5. lad's mag
  6. lad-lit
  7. Lada
  8. Ladakh
  9. Ladakh Division
  10. Ladakhi
  11. Ladakhis

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