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hardmaxxing

hardmaxxing is the present participle and gerund of hardmaxx.

Meaning of hardmaxx

Verb

hardmaxx (third-person singular simple present hardmaxxes, present participle hardmaxxing, simple past and past participle hardmaxxed)

  1. (intransitive, transitive, incel slang) To act to improve one's physical appearance using body modifications or other extreme methods; to engage in extreme looksmaxxing.
    • Looksmaxxing attaches "scores" to aspects of male appearance, focusing particularly on jawline, muscularity and skin. Looksmaxxers aim to increase their scores via "softmaxxing" (such as using a gua sha, burning more calories than consumed, or moisturising) and "hardmaxxing" (such as steroid use...2024 March 26, Riley Farrell, “Inside looksmaxxing, the extreme cosmetic social media trend”, in BBC, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2024

Questions about hardmaxxing

What is hardmaxxing the present participle and gerund of?
Hardmaxxing is the present participle and gerund of hardmaxx.

Words near hardmaxxing in the dictionary

  1. hardman
  2. Hardmans
  3. hardmaxx
  4. hardmaxxed
  5. hardmaxxes
  6. hardmaxxing
  7. hardmen
  8. hardmode
  9. hardmouthed
  10. hardneck
  11. hardnecks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hardmaxxing (page history and authors); hardmaxx (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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