A boy, youth; a young man, young fellow. Also, in the diction of pastoral poetry, used to denote ‘a young shepherd’. In wider sense applied familiarly or endearingly (sometimes ironically) to a male person of any age, esp. in the form of address my lad
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Oh not especially ah there was one young lad that asked me to go to the show to him one night and I wasn't very fond of him (laughs). And- but I couldn't be mean to anybody so I said, "Yeah, well sure I'll go," you-know? So, in long (inc) 'course I knew him from b-- way before but I haven't seen him for quite a while. |
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And as you can see, that's the result of ah, the young lad having his friends over at this repair job to my umbrella. It has L-E-D's in it. You crank it up and it shines a nice blue, party like light at night and that was totalled from one Kirkland-Lake gathering... |
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And ah, he said, 'Oh, we have a, ah, a young lad here from northern Ontario,' he says, and um, and he says, 'As you can see, he doesn't even have a chair- a hair on his chest yet.'" |
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In his handcuffs up through the field (laughs). And the coach just says, "Get him lads." |
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Speaker: Handed him back over (laughs). "Get him lads." (Laughs) |
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No but I come so very close to it coming from ah coming up from ah Martin-River to ah Martin-River at Temagami and the lad had warned me he pulled a lady out of the car at ah the tracks at ah, at Temagami, where they cross the road there. And she wasn't seriously injured but ah the car was a write-off and the moose had went through her windshield. |
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I ah- when I first went with Pitt's-Construction here from Toronto ah a lad watched me climb up the ladder of a thirty-five-ton Caterpillar truck. Ah to put oil in- lift the lid and put oil in. |
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So I- I come in this morning and this lad had put brand new tracks on a bulldozer that was about a year or two old. |
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Yeah. You-know got to check in with the young lad there and make sure, you-know, how's school going and- 'cause we bypass each other, we only have supper together every night as a family. Whether, you-know, like whether we see each other at any other time, we have supper at the table every night together. |
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little more um- this is a lot of stuff here. This is a lot of- of band stuff I got there. There's three young lads that learned to play it here. |
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Yeah yeah, very interesting. (inc) three other Canadian lads there with me there. Down there- there- I went... |
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Yeah. Well, yeah this, some of these things. There's some locals that got in there to start. I got one killed, I think it was this lad got killed. All I know, Hilton-Alaroy there, he got killed out of the Hong-Kong. |
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A little more um- this is a lot of stuff here. This is a lot of- of band stuff I got there. There's three young lads that learned to play it here. |
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And so the- there was the two young lads and- and they had no children, they had no children for thirteen years. And then the first child was born dead so I guess they were happy to see me |
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And sometimes ah, people will call other people of the same age, be it young or old ah a lad. And they don't mean anything other than it's a- a person, the son of a family. "He's a nice lad." And he could be- |
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And sometimes ah, people will call other people of the same age, be it young or old ah a lad. And they don't mean anything other than it's a- a person, the son of a family. "He's a nice lad." And he could be... |
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He seen it happen. He come around the corner, he seen- he see the deer topple over, he seen the young lads ahead of him. Young lads stop, deer's just keeled over dead, arrow sticking out of it. |
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Oh yes. So she nails a deer with her car and you-know Dariah, not much bigger than you, height wise and reasonable good-looking girl and-everything. Couple of young lads come along behind her. S-- you-know they- I–don't-know, I-think it was dead. |
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This is Haliburton county. The lads- young and this is Lue, the guy I work for... |
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Young lads look at the deer, chuck in the back of the truck... |
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