From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishthe ladsthe ladsspokenMAN a group of male friends that a man works with or spends his free time with a night out with the ladsone of the lads (=a member of your group of friends) → lad
Examples from the Corpus
one of the lads• Annie and one of the lads in the yard helped to move what furniture she had.• Get one of the lads to see her off the premises.• Bradman was not one of the lads.• So at work you're one of the lads. 