beefcake
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Etymology edit
From beef + cake, by analogy with cheesecake (“an image of a sexy young woman”).
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beefcake (countable and uncountable, plural beefcakes)
- (informal, uncountable) Imagery of one or more muscular, well-built men.
- Coordinate term: cheesecake
- (informal, countable) Such a male, especially as seen as physically desirable.
- Synonyms: lady-killer, hunk, adonis
- 2014, Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
- The audience goes bugshit. The security beefcakes separate them and the host gets between them, talking in a voice that is soothing on top, inciteful beneath.
- (literally) A cake containing beef.
- 1998, Jessie Tirsch, McGuire's Irish Pub Cookbook, Pelican, page 145:
- Beefcake with Burgundy Mushroom Cream
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imagery of muscular men
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a very muscular person — see also hunk
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