Proper noun

1. A diminutive of Laurence and Lawrence. Popular as a male given name in the U.S. in the 1940s and the 1950s.

Quotations

• 1998 Carol Shields: Larry's Party. Penguin 1998. ISBN 0140266771 page 254:

  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.

• 2002 Laurell K. Hamilton: Circus of the Damned. JOVE 2002. ISBN 0515134481 page 149:

  "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.