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He's brought up just like mum (3)

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I believe the answer is:

dad

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'mum' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?

'he's brought up just like' is the wordplay.
'he' becomes 'Ad'.
'brought up' is a reversal indicator (in a down clue, letters go up).
'just like' becomes 'd' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'ad' in reverse letter order is 'da'.
'da'+'d'='DAD'

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(Other definitions for dad that I've seen before include "Relation" , "Father, in short" , "Papa" , "Pa" , "Pop, pater" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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