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Jack-the-lad

noun

  1. slang.
    a young man who is regarded as a brash, loud show-off
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

He was lukewarm about the production, and the British actor, who he said was "a perfectly OK Jack-the-lad Romeo".

From BBC

Marvin was singing from the perspective of a singer on the road, a love ’em and leave ’em, Jack-the-lad type.

"I was always trying to be the best and be seen as a jack-the-lad... because I was always hiding something, I could never ever let my defenses down," she says in a calm and soft-spoken manner that belies her previous life as Frank.

From Reuters

“They basically co-opted working-class Jack-the-lad and made it a middle-class form of ironic enjoyment. “But what makes the lad of today fascinating is the internet,” Young continues.

Buy the DVD The set-up is simple: charming Jack-the-lad turf accountant wanders back into the life of advertising secretary Penny Warrender, having jilted her at the altar five years previously.

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