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Life was hard when I was a lad.
Well, lad, I hope you won't make the same mistake again!
He's a good lad at heart.
They can't treat us like that, can they, lads?!
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A lot of the new lads signed early, which helped them to bed in.
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Paul Taylor, The Athletic, 24 Dec. 2024
There’s a rousing musical sequence where the Take That lads rampage through the West End and, at the song’s peak, Williams leaps from the top of a double-decker red bus.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
The British music journalist Miranda Sawyer compared Williams’s appeal to that of another cheeky northern lad: Harry Styles of One Direction.
—Simran Hans, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2024
The singer voices himself in this biopic, while the motion capture actor Jonno Davies plays him as a British lad with the face of (no joke) a CGI monkey.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024
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Paul Taylor, The Athletic, 24 Dec. 2024
There’s a rousing musical sequence where the Take That lads rampage through the West End and, at the song’s peak, Williams leaps from the top of a double-decker red bus.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
The British music journalist Miranda Sawyer compared Williams’s appeal to that of another cheeky northern lad: Harry Styles of One Direction.
—Simran Hans, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2024
The singer voices himself in this biopic, while the motion capture actor Jonno Davies plays him as a British lad with the face of (no joke) a CGI monkey.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024
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“Lad.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lad. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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noun1
: boy sense 1, youth
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