the lads
plural noun
British, informal
: the male friends or work partners of a man viewed as a group
He was out drinking with the lads at the pub.
Examples of the lads in a Sentence
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On the Billboard 200, the lads have notched four top 10 titles, including the No. 1 albums No Strings Attached (eight weeks) and Celebrity (one week).
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Lars Brandle, Billboard, 14 Mar. 2024
Previous, the lads reached the summit with Everything Changes (from 1993), Nobody Else (1995), Greatest Hits (1996), Beautiful World (2006), The Circus (2008), Progress (2010), III (2014) and Odyssey (2018).
—Lars Brandle, Billboard, 28 Nov. 2023
The Name Chapter: FREEFALL arrives just two month after the release of Sweet, the lads’ second Japanese-language album, which debuted at No. 3 on the World Albums chart.
—Lars Brandle, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2023
Beyond The Story gives fans something tangible to remember the lads by, news of which arrives during a burst of activity.
—Lars Brandle, Billboard, 14 June 2023
The theater where the lads took their kits off is long shuttered, and there’s still no local industry to provide reliable employment.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2023
The defense started the day fast, registering would-be sacks of Jones on the first two plays of the first full-team period, prompting a lot of hooting and hollering from the lads in blue.
—Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2023
My dad ran ahead to the house, to stick a fry on for the lads coming back.
—Caolán Magee, CNN, 6 Apr. 2023
Lars Brandle, Billboard, 14 Mar. 2024
Previous, the lads reached the summit with Everything Changes (from 1993), Nobody Else (1995), Greatest Hits (1996), Beautiful World (2006), The Circus (2008), Progress (2010), III (2014) and Odyssey (2018).
—Lars Brandle, Billboard, 28 Nov. 2023
The Name Chapter: FREEFALL arrives just two month after the release of Sweet, the lads’ second Japanese-language album, which debuted at No. 3 on the World Albums chart.
—Lars Brandle, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2023
Beyond The Story gives fans something tangible to remember the lads by, news of which arrives during a burst of activity.
—Lars Brandle, Billboard, 14 June 2023
The theater where the lads took their kits off is long shuttered, and there’s still no local industry to provide reliable employment.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2023
The defense started the day fast, registering would-be sacks of Jones on the first two plays of the first full-team period, prompting a lot of hooting and hollering from the lads in blue.
—Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2023
My dad ran ahead to the house, to stick a fry on for the lads coming back.
—Caolán Magee, CNN, 6 Apr. 2023
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