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ladymag en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From lady + mag (“magazine”).

Meanings

1. (informal) A magazine which focuses on women's issues and interests.
   • Slowly and mechanically, without really seeing anything, I leafed through the pages of a big fat silky ladymag. 1972, Jean Shepherd, The Ferrari in the Bedroom, unnumbered page (originally published in Car & Driver)
   • Namely, that perhaps the national media was poised to acknowledge en masse the smart, serious work already being published by the ladymags—and that perhaps ladymags might be reinventing themselves for an increasingly savvy audience, sick of pandering. 2014 May 12, Alexis Sobel Fitts, “The ‘new feminists’ of Joanna Coles’ Cosmopolitan”, in Columbia Journal Review:
   • OK, despite a hefty cleavage, the standard cover girl for a trashy ladymag stops short of nipple exposure, but that doesn't mean women's magazines (and, as we saw, even teen magazines) don't heavily 'laddify' their content. 2014, Holly Baxter, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, Vagenda: A Zero Tolerance Guide to the Media, page 263:

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lad mag