"lad lit" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Modeled on lad mag and perhaps chick lit.",
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      },
      "expansion": "lad lit (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Literary genres",
          "orig": "en:Literary genres",
          "parents": [
            "Fiction",
            "Genres",
            "Literature",
            "Artistic works",
            "Entertainment",
            "Culture",
            "Writing",
            "Art",
            "Society",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Language",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Communication",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004 June 6, Jonathan Heawood, “You couldn't make it up”, in The Observer:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 September 18, Joanna Briscoe, “Just Like You by Nick Hornby review – ladlit meets mumlit”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Male-authored popular novels about young men and their emotional and personal lives."
      ],
      "id": "en-lad_lit-en-noun-LjyUJmDz",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(British) Male-authored popular novels about young men and their emotional and personal lives."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "ladlit"
        },
        {
          "word": "lad-lit"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lad lit"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Modeled on lad mag and perhaps chick lit.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "lad lit (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Literary genres"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004 June 6, Jonathan Heawood, “You couldn't make it up”, in The Observer:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 September 18, Joanna Briscoe, “Just Like You by Nick Hornby review – ladlit meets mumlit”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Male-authored popular novels about young men and their emotional and personal lives."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(British) Male-authored popular novels about young men and their emotional and personal lives."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "ladlit"
    },
    {
      "word": "lad-lit"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lad lit"
}