Larry

A diminutive of the male given name Laurence or Lawrence, popular as a male given name in the U.S. in the 1940s and the 1950s.

Proper noun lifestyle

The real-person fiction ship of Louis Tomlinson and Harry Styles of the band One Direction.
- "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. - 2013, Andrea Flores, "Is Your (Relation)Ship Sailing?", TheBearCat (San...
- Fan platforms often include some type of Larry fan fiction, fan art and detailed explanations of their fan theories. - 2014, Mary Sheehan, "One Direction: Why We Need To Pay Attention", The Edge (Elon University), Fall...
- Perhaps the most striking example of this intra-fandom antagonism comes in responses to Larry shippers. - 2016, Bethan Jones, “'I Will Throw You off Your Ship and You Will Drown and Die': Death Threats, Intra-Fandom...

Blend of Louis + Harry.

A diminutive of the male given name Laurence or Lawrence, popular as a male given name in the U.S. in the 1940s and the 1950s.
- 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. - 1998, Carol Shields, Larry's Party, Penguin, →ISBN,...
- "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. - 2002, Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned,...
- 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. - 2025 October 3, Ray Bogan, “Wikipedia...