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Short character hugs poster girl on the booze (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ladette

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'booze' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?

'short character hugs poster girl on the' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'character' could be 't' and 't' is located in the answer.
'poster' could be 'ad' (short for advert) and 'ad' is present in the answer.
'the' could be 't' (the is pronounced as a 't' sound in some dialects) and 't' is located in the answer.
'girl' could be 'lee' and 'lee' is found within the leftover letters.
No letters remain.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for ladette that I've seen before include "Loutish female" , "Girl likely to drink lots" , "Crude young woman" , "Rowdy youngster" , "Tomboy" .)

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