Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lad lit

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.72 in modern English

Syllables: lad lit
IPA

7

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Male-authored popular novels about young men and their emotional and personal lives.

British usage; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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."
"Just Like You could stand alone as the ladlit-meets-mumlit social satire that it is, its vicious wit paradoxically interwoven with tenderness and empathy."

Etymology

Modeled on lad mag and perhaps chick lit.

Usage

British usage
Uncountable

Inflected Forms

ladlit (alternative) lad-lit (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

dick lit frat lit

Questions

What does lad lit mean?: Male-authored popular novels about young men and their emotional and personal lives.
Where does lad lit come from?: Modeled on lad mag and perhaps chick lit.

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