Lad or lads may refer to:

Lad

* Lad, a term for a

boy A boy is a young male human. The term is commonly used for a child or an adolescent. When a male human reaches adulthood, he is usually described as a man. Definition, etymology, and use According to the ''Merriam-Webster Dictionary'', a boy ...

or young man *

Lad culture Lad culture (also the new lad, laddism) was a media-driven, principally British and Irish subculture of the 1990s and the early 2000s. The term ''lad culture'' continues to be used today to refer to collective, boorish or misogynistic behaviour by ...

, a British subculture

Arts and entertainment

* ''Lad'' (video game), 2012 iOS game * ''

Lad, A Dog ''Lad: A Dog'' is a 1919 American novel written by Albert Payson Terhune and published by E. P. Dutton. Composed of twelve short stories first published in magazines, the novel is based on the life of Terhune's real-life Rough Collie, Lad. Bor ...

'', a collection of short stories by Albert Payson Terhune *

The Lads The Lads are a New Zealand Christian rock/Pop rock, pop Music group, group that was formed in 1993. In 2005, after releasing five studio albums, The Lads relocated from New Zealand to Nashville, Tennessee, Nashville, Tennessee. In 2017, The b ...

, a New Zealand Christian rock-pop band * Zeus and Apollo, two Doberman Pinschers appearing in the ''Magnum, P.I.'' TV series and its remake

Places

* Lad, Bhiwani, Haryana, India *

Ląd, Greater Poland Voivodeship Ląd is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Lądek, within Słupca County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately south of Słupca and east of the regional capital Poznań. Cistercian Abbey Th ...

, Poland *

Lad, Hungary Lad () is a village in Somogy county, Hungary. Gallery File:Ladi templom.JPG, Roman Catholic Church in Lad File:Ladi szobor és kereszt.JPG, Statue of Saint Wendelin Saint Wendelin of Trier (; 554 - 617 AD) was a hermit and abbot. His c ...

, a village in Hungary

LAD

LAD is a three-letter abbreviation that may refer to:

Organizations

* ''Lietuvos apsaugos dalys'', a term for Lithuanian Auxiliary Police battalions *

Light Aid Detachment A Light Aid Detachment is an attached independent minor unit of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, or Royal New Zealand Army Log ...

, a subunit in some Commonwealth army engineer corps *

Los Angeles Dodgers The Los Angeles Dodgers are an American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles. The Dodgers compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (baseball), National League (NL) National League West, West Div ...

, a Californian baseball team, which played in Brooklyn prior to 1958 *

Lycée Alexandre Dumas The Lycée Alexandre Dumas (LAD, ) is a French international school in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. It has ''primaire'' (primary school) and ''collège-lycée'' (junior and senior high school) levels.Swiss Laboratory for Doping Analyses The Swiss Laboratory for Doping Analyses (French: ''Laboratoire suisse d'analyse du dopage'', LAD) is the only anti-doping laboratory in Switzerland. It is affiliated to the University Hospital of Lausanne and is located in Épalinges (urban a ...

Local authority district The districts of England (officially, local authority districts, abbreviated LADs) are a level of Subdivisions of England, subnational division of England used for the purposes of Local government in England, local government. As the structure ...

, a type of local government area in the United Kingdom

Science and medicine

* Lamina-associating domains, regions of the chromosome that interact with the nuclear lamina; see *

Language acquisition device The Language Acquisition Device (LAD) is a claim from language acquisition research proposed by Noam Chomsky in the 1960s. The LAD concept is a purported instinctive mental capacity which enables an infant to acquire and produce language. It is a ...

, part of the human brain structure as proposed by Noam Chomsky *

Least absolute deviations Least absolute deviations (LAD), also known as least absolute errors (LAE), least absolute residuals (LAR), or least absolute values (LAV), is a statistical optimality criterion and a statistical optimization technique based on minimizing the su ...

, a mathematical optimization technique *

Left anterior descending artery The left anterior descending artery (LAD, or anterior descending branch), also called anterior interventricular artery (IVA, or anterior interventricular branch of left coronary artery) is a branch of the left coronary artery. It supplies the ante ...

, a coronary artery branch *

Left axis deviation In electrocardiography, left axis deviation (LAD) is a condition wherein the mean electrical axis of ventricular contraction of the heart lies in a frontal plane direction between −30° and −90°. This is reflected by a QRS complex positiv ...

, a condition in electrocardiography *

Leukocyte adhesion deficiency Leukocyte adhesion deficiency (LAD) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by immunodeficiency resulting in recurrent infections. LAD is currently divided into three subtypes: LAD1, LAD2, and the recently described LAD3, also kno ...

* Locally advanced disease, a stage in cancer staging *

Lymphadenopathy Lymphadenopathy or adenopathy is a disease of the lymph nodes, in which they are abnormal in size or consistency. Lymphadenopathy of an inflammatory type (the most common type) is lymphadenitis, producing swollen or enlarged lymph nodes. In c ...

Lysergic acid diethylamide Lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly known as LSD (from German ; often referred to as acid or lucy), is a Semisynthesis, semisynthetic, Hallucinogen, hallucinogenic compound derived from ergot, known for its powerful psychological effects and ...

, commonly known as LSD

Transportation

* LAD, the national rail station code for

Ladywell railway station Ladywell railway station is in Ladywell, in the London Borough of Lewisham in south east London, in Travelcard Zone 3. It is measured from . The station and all trains serving it are operated by Southeastern. The Grade II station opened in 1 ...

in Ladywell, London * LAD, the IATA airport code for

Quatro de Fevereiro Airport Quatro de Fevereiro International Airport (, ), is the main international airport of Angola. It is located in the southern part of the capital Luanda, situated in the Luanda Province. ''Quatro de Fevereiro'' means 4 February, which is an importa ...

in Luanda, Angola

Others

* lad, the ISO 639 alpha-2 for

Judaeo-Spanish Judaeo-Spanish or Judeo-Spanish (autonym , Hebrew script: ), also known as Ladino or Judezmo or Spaniolit, is a Romance language derived from Castilian Old Spanish. Originally spoken in Spain, and then after the Edict of Expulsion spreading ...

or Ladino language * Laboratory aim density, a system in motion picture printmaking; see China Girl (filmmaking) *

Land assembly district A Land Assembly District (LAD) is a district of property owners that has the power, by majority vote, to approve or disapprove the sale of their land. It is a proposed legal regime to solve the problem of gridlock, which happens when too many peo ...

, a proposed legal regime for assembling land * ''

Like a Dragon , formerly known outside of Japan as ''Yakuza'', is a video game franchise by Sega. It incorporates elements of the action-adventure, beat 'em up, and role-playing genres. Each installment is typically a crime drama, with plot lines inspired ...

'', a series of video games by Sega, also known as ''Yakuza'' outside Japan

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