trad

adj

1. (not-comparable)Traditional.

   “I've been listening to trad jazz lately.”

   “There are a couple of soups, a hot dish, a quichey option, a salad of the day, good trad puds and that’s about it.”

   “Ultimately, this is what unites the Collinses with the more “trad” wings of the natalist movement, from the nativists to the Christian nationalists: pushing back on social and cultural changes they see as imposed on them by outside forces.”

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)Traditional climbing.
2. (countable, uncountable)Irish traditional music

   “Miltown Malbay hosts the annual Willie Clancy Irish Music Festival, one of Ireland's great trad music events.”

   “Galway is the heart of Trad— the city and its environs have nurtured some of the most durable names in Irish music.”

3. (countable, informal, uncountable)A traditionalist.

   “And just because leftoids make tripe from their position of strength is no reason for trads to make schlock from their position of weakness.”

4. (countable, informal, uncountable)Anything traditional, such as a school or a model of car.