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lavender lad

lavender lad noun: a homosexual male.

Noun

lavender lad (plural lavender lads)

  1. (US, historical, slang) A homosexual male.

Forms of lavender lad

plurallavender lads

Origin of lavender lad

Coined by U.S. federal senator Everett Dirksen in the 1950s. From the association with femininity of the color lavender. An alliterative construct, pairing lad (“boy”) and lavender.

Questions about lavender lad

What does lavender lad mean?
Lavender lad means a homosexual male.
What part of speech is lavender lad?
Lavender lad is a noun.
What is the plural of lavender lad?
The plural of lavender lad is lavender lads.

Words near lavender lad in the dictionary

  1. Lavender Bay
  2. lavender ceiling
  3. lavender ceilings
  4. lavender cotton
  5. lavender foal syndrome
  6. lavender lad
  7. lavender lads
  8. lavender linguistics
  9. lavender marriage
  10. lavender marriages
  11. lavender menace

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