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a Jack the Lad

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a Jack the Lad

  (British informal, old-fashioned)

a confident and not very serious young man who behaves as he wants to without thinking about other people Three children with three different women? Well, he always was a bit of a Jack the Lad.

See before can say Jack Robinson

See also: jack, lad