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hardbody

hardbody noun: an attractive body enhanced through weightlifting.

Noun

hardbody (plural hardbodies)

  1. An attractive body enhanced through weightlifting.
    • "This town's stuffed with A-list hardbody superbabes," he confided in me — "Idaho farm girls, preacher's daughters from Ohio, Alabama college girls — every last cute-assed one of them wants to be an actress.2003, Phillip Oppenheim, Maggie to Margaritas
    • No hardbody, Maria's was a soft, squishy middle, probably from a few too many whipped cream indulgences on shift.2008, Laurie Channer, Godblog, Dundurn, →ISBN, page 68

Adjective

hardbody (not comparable)

  1. (Africa) Designating a kind of large, tough chicken with strong bones.

Examples of hardbody in a sentence

  • Certainly the action heroine is often filmed to accentuate her body, but this new hardbody is not offered up as a mere sexual commodity.2011, Jeffrey A. Brown, Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture, Univ. Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page...
  • The “hardbody film,” a term that was first coined by Susan Jeffords, is defined by Drew Ayers as: ...2014, James Kendrick, Darkness in the Bliss-Out: A Reconsideration of the Films of Steven Spielberg, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page...

Forms of hardbody

pluralhardbodies

Origin of hardbody

From hard + body.

Questions about hardbody

What does hardbody mean?
Hardbody means an attractive body enhanced through weightlifting.
How do you use hardbody in a sentence?
Certainly the action heroine is often filmed to accentuate her body, but this new hardbody is not offered up as a mere sexual commodity.
What part of speech is hardbody?
Hardbody can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of hardbody?
The plural of hardbody is hardbodies.

Words near hardbody in the dictionary

  1. hardboarded
  2. hardboarding
  3. hardboards
  4. hardbodied
  5. hardbodies
  6. hardbody
  7. hardboil
  8. hardboiled
  9. hardboot
  10. hardboots
  11. hardbop

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