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ladlit

ladlit 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

Origin of ladlit

From lad + lit.

Questions about ladlit

What is ladlit the alternative form of?
Ladlit is the alternative form of lad lit.

Words near ladlit in the dictionary

  1. ladles and jellyspoons
  2. ladlesful
  3. ladlike
  4. ladling
  5. ladlings
  6. ladlit
  7. Ladmanlow
  8. Ladner
  9. Ladnier
  10. Ladniers
  11. LADO

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ladlit (page history and authors); lad lit (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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