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first laddie

first laddie
 n.Gloss: Bill Clinton’s jocular suggestion for the title of a female president’s husband. «Hillary is taking this experiment to its extreme and logical conclusion, by attempting to become the first female president of the United States. And Bill, in this equation, will be… well, what, exactly? On Oprah, Clinton joked that his Scottish friends say he should be called “First Laddie.”» —“The First: Female President, Male First Lady, Former President in the White House” by Jennifer Senior New York Magazine Sept. 30, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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