411 REFERENCE · Wiktionary
Larry
Reference material by Wiktionary contributors. This retains its source identity and is not 411 news reporting.
larry
English
Pronunciation
en /ˈlæ.ɹi/ RP
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Larry.wav Southern England
lărʹē GA
en /ˈlæ.ɹi/ nMmmm
en /ˈlɛɹ.i/ Mmmm
en lairy<aa:only in accents with the <<Mmmm>>>
en Lar ry
en æɹi 2
Etymology 1
Proper noun
en male Laurence or Lawrence, popular as a male given name in the U.S. in the 1940s and the 1950s.
en 1998 Carol Shields Larry's Party 254 Penguin 0140266771 No one gets named Larry anymore. It's had it as a name. Think of someone called Larry and you automatically conjure up a guy drinking beer in a sixties rec room.
en 2002 Laurell K. Hamilton Circus of the Damned 149 JOVE 0515134481 "Larry, name's Larry." I smiled, it was too ridiculous. He was worried about me calling him Lawrence instead of Larry with a rogue zombie climbing out of the dirt.
en Ray Bogan Wikipedia co-founder says site has liberal bias — here’s his plan to fix that w:Straight Arrow News https://san.com/cc/wikipedia-co-founder-says-site-has-liberal-bias-heres-his-plan-to-fix-that/ 2025-10-03 Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger is alleging that the online encyclopedia has a left-leaning bias and “a lot of problems,” and recently released a nine-point plan to fix it. https://web.archive.org/web/20251004060923/https://san.com/cc/wikipedia-co-founder-says-site-has-liberal-bias-heres-his-plan-to-fix-that/
Derived terms
en hang a Larry
en happy as Larry
en Larry Dooley
Translations
diminutive of Laurence
Danish: da Lars, da Lasse
German: de Lars, de Lenz
Italian: it Loris, it Enzo
Norwegian: no Lars, no Lasse
Serbo-Croatian: sh Lovre, sh Lovro
Spanish: es Renzo
Swedish: sv Lars, sv Lasse
Etymology 2
en Louis Harry.
Proper noun
en fandom slang The real-person fiction ship of Louis Tomlinson and Harry Styles of the band One Direction.
2013, Andrea Flores, "Is Your (Relation)Ship Sailing?", TheBearCat (San Mateo High School), 1 November 2013, page 8:
"Larry" shippers even make evidence videos on YouTube to try to prove that they are actually a couple, showing a more extreme side of shipping.
2014, Mary Sheehan, "One Direction: Why We Need To Pay Attention", The Edge (Elon University), Fall 2014, page 25:
Fan platforms often include some type of Larry fan fiction, fan art and detailed explanations of their fan theories.
en 2016 Lucy Bennett; Paul Booth Bethan Jones 'I Will Throw You off Your Ship and You Will Drown and Die': Death Threats, Intra-Fandom Hate, and the Performance of Fangirling Seeing Fans: Representations of Fandom in Media and Popular Culture 60 Perhaps the most striking example of this intra-fandom antagonism comes in responses to Larry shippers.
en
Synonyms
en Larry Stylinson
Derived terms
en Larrie
Further reading
Larries
en eponyms
en M/M ships (fandom) RPF ships (fandom) Ships with portmanteau names (fandom)
Spanish
Etymology
es :ubor en:Larry + 1
Pronunciation
Proper noun
m
es male English