ladette

plural ladettes · alternative laddette

1. informalA young woman who behaves in a laddish manner, namely being boisterous and loud and drinking to excess.

   So the rise in drinking seems to centre on gen X women, or, to give us our proper title, ladettes.

   2021 September 22, Zoe Williams, “Generation X are heavy, risky drinkers. Will anything ever persuade us to stop?”, in The Guardian

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   It could be argued that the rise of the socially conscious model reflects a very 2017 archetype: the “woke” young woman, who looks set to define femininity this decade in the same way that the lager-swilling ladette did in the 90s. It is also symptomatic of a broader cultural “awokening” that has reached the stuffiest institutions; even the royal family has recently relaxed its upper lip.

   2017 May 15, Hannah Marriott, “Woke models: how activism became fashion's latest must-have”, in The Guardian, London, page 9

   Synonyms: geezerbird, tomboy