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Definition of Jack the Lad in English: Jack the Ladnoun British informal A brash, cocky young man. a cocky Jack the Lad who neglected academic study as modifier a Jack the Lad sex symbol Example sentencesExamples - Monogamy has never meant much to Jack the Lad, who admits he repeatedly lied to Anjelica during their 17-year relationship.
- These men were violent, but there has always been a tendency to give them the folk-hero treatment, as if they were typical Jack the Lads and brightly representative of a certain working-class resourcefulness in the face of Britain's postwar austerity.
- I learnt to get on with them, I just wanted to be something I wasn't, a bit of a Jack the Lad and it was the start of a rocky ride really.
- Good old Les, a bit of a rogue, a bit of a Jack the Lad, but basically, as Eamonn says ‘a good man’…
- Your other brother, Abbas, nails a great job in Brussels after a fun-filled adolescence as Jack the Lad.
Origin Nickname of Jack Sheppard, an 18th-century thief. Definition of Jack the Lad in US English: Jack the Ladnoun British informal A brash, cocky young man. a cocky Jack the Lad who neglected academic study as modifier a Jack the Lad sex symbol Example sentencesExamples - These men were violent, but there has always been a tendency to give them the folk-hero treatment, as if they were typical Jack the Lads and brightly representative of a certain working-class resourcefulness in the face of Britain's postwar austerity.
- Your other brother, Abbas, nails a great job in Brussels after a fun-filled adolescence as Jack the Lad.
- Good old Les, a bit of a rogue, a bit of a Jack the Lad, but basically, as Eamonn says ‘a good man’…
- I learnt to get on with them, I just wanted to be something I wasn't, a bit of a Jack the Lad and it was the start of a rocky ride really.
- Monogamy has never meant much to Jack the Lad, who admits he repeatedly lied to Anjelica during their 17-year relationship.
Origin Nickname of Jack Sheppard, an 18th-century thief. |