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Lad mag
Professor David Crystal
Lad mag. Lad mags. Let s look at mag , first of all
shortened form of the word magazines . You got these
mags? that s been around quite a long time. Lad , the
other part - a young man, or somebody who acts like a
young man. I feel like a lad, sometimes. And you put the
two things together and you get a lad mag . In other
words, a magazine for men.
And usually, the term is with reference to the kind of soft
porn magazines that you find on the top shelf of
newsagents. But, actually, it has a more general usage too.
I mean, lad mags can be any magazines with a male
orientation so I ve heard the word used for magazines
about motorbikes and tech-y magazines that is,
magazines to do with technical subjects or adventures
stories have sometimes been called lad mags .
Written, by the way, sometimes as a single word, and sometimes as two
words lad mag I m not quite sure which is the most common usage
at the moment. But there is one thing and that is that it isn t just a male
prerogative, this kind of coinage. Women s magazines, like Cosmopolitan
and Vogue , are sometimes called chick mags !
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