Lads

These designer duds for dudes were a great crowd-pleaser for everyone - after all, a show full of lads is that much more fun for the ladies! ❋ Marissa Bronfman (2010)

But these lads from a nearby village went about their business with bowed backs and closed faces, and their manner was tentative, their hands shook as they set items down on the starched linen tablecloth. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The lads from the Vaudois region were keen and active, too. ❋ Unknown (1939)

A few of them were dirty old habitual vagabonds, the majority decent-looking lads from the north, probably miners or cotton operatives out of work. ❋ Unknown (1933)

They were a mere handful – not above two score – apparently the relics of the band which had attacked the mill, joined with a few plough-lads from the country around. ❋ Unknown (1897)

At his word lads appeared from behind the idol, driving two lean bulls, and with them a pair of he-goats. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

Then he called the lads, now almost reluctant to leave the pleasant place of peace and plenty, and rode away again, they following and looking back again and again, to wave farewell. ❋ Evelyn Raymond (1876)

The Europeans took their loss philosophically, resolving to practice a bit more for the next game, and are considering expanding the roster next time to include a few of the strapping young lads from the Russian Embassy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They're both Catalan/Barca boys, and pals with several of the lads from the Spanish NT. ❋ Unknown (2009)

His reference to the morbid jihadist team as "lads" - an English term of endearment for the youthful male person, derived from Middle English ladde-was indicative of a seriously deranged mindset. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Besides all these priceless treasures, there was an old boat lying afloat in a small lagoon back of the house, one of those seepage pools common to the coast -- a boat which Fogarty had patched with a bit of sail-cloth, and for which he had made two pairs of oars, one for each of the "crew," as he called the lads, and which Archie learned to handle with such dexterity that the old fisherman declared he would make a first-class boatman when he grew up, and would "shame the whole bunch of 'em." ❋ Francis Hopkinson Smith (1876)

She had known that Matt worked for what was called a lads’ mag, and that he wrote about women all the time, but the man she’d met and just begun to get to know over the last few days hadn’t seemed the sort who would meet a girl down at the pub and then bring her back to bed on the very same night. ❋ Rowan Coleman (2010)

Unfortunately for the young lads, that is a crime. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He also wants a nationwide ban on sexualised images in outdoor poster advertising and modesty boards covering the front pages of so-called "lads" magazines in newsagents. ❋ Unknown (2011)

If you were to pin me down, for instance, I'd have to say I recall the lads I went to medical school with better than I recall my own father. ❋ Unknown (2008)

My master said, I have given you a mistress, my lads, that is the joy of my heart: You see her goodness and condescension! ❋ Unknown (2006)

The most likely of the scenarios to succeed was the first'some bloke in New York had done something like that, called his lads the "Guardian Angels" -and even he hadn't succeeded in cleaning up more than a drop or two of the filth in one city, let alone hundreds. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1998)

The whiskey was going round, and the lads were a little flushed. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

"So you are the pesky rascal the lads was a-tellin 'me about," said ❋ Ralph Bonehill (N/A)

It has been my privilege to travel along the frontier, to meet the boys from the city of Toronto-some of your regiments happened to be in a brigade that I was visiting-and I met others of them in England, and I want to - point out that all over, on every hand, we find but one spirit among these lads, that is, determination to do or die in the great cause. ❋ Unknown (1916)

"[Lads], will [ye] be shut up!" "Lads, are you going to [Cian's] party tomorrow?" ❋ Soldieron (2012)

man that party was so [sh*t], [yeh man] all those lads and their sh*t taste in clothes, it was -10c and they still wear [shorts] ❋ Aidan Chan (2005)

lads: OI [ADLAYS] PASS MY ACKETJAYSlads: get it [yaself] aggotfayslads: oi braahzz gimme ya wallet random: check out those lads, rolling that [poor fat] kid lad 1: OI LADS LETS GO BASH SOME EMOS ❋ Tammeh! (2008)

A: [the lads] are [so hard] B: yeah Both:[cough] ❋ Hustla000 (2010)

Check [the rack] on that! Lads!! Hey guys, let's get [pissed on] [lager] and then go out and play rugby and then make sexist/homophobic jokes for a while and then whistle at "fit" girls in the street. Lads!!!! Lads!! ❋ Strach (2006)

[ahaha], [look at that] [lad] ❋ Jay (2005)

oi lads lets lets go [get sum] ilpayz and then will [call up] [sum] gangerz and get sum ootrayz ❋ Aoske (2008)

Examples described in [depth] in the defintition of term 'White [Cap'] [A.K.A] 'lads' ❋ Alexxy Taylor (2005)

LADS-oi [bro] were u get them [TN's] from? ❋ Joe Arab (2008)

[erm].... [LADS] LADS, [admit] u must admit u must [lads] ❋ Anonymous (2003)