man crush

Noun

man crush (plural man crushes)

1. (colloquial) An intense and typically non-sexual feeling of attraction toward and admiration from one man to another man.
   • Another interesting note from the Super Bowl: aside from my season-long man-crush, Stephen Davis (who ultimately let me down in Week 15), and maybe his Panther teammate WR Steve Smith, who had a good season (when he wasn’t beating the shit out of his own teammates in team meetings, that is), there...2004, Mark St. Amant, Committed: Confession of a Fantasy Football Junkie, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 278
   • The second one was a gag gift for Private First Class Dubee. He had this man crush on a male professional wrestler. We managed to get a digital shot of Dubee standing next to a poster of his man crush.2005, Phil Kiver, 182 Days in Iraq, Word Association Publishers, →ISBN, page 82

   Synonyms:

   brolationship, bromance

2. (colloquial) A crush on (sexual attraction toward) a man.
   • “[…] Her old man crushes were always just that—crushes. But maybe she really is dating him. […]”2004, Joyce Anthony Huff, Meadowlark, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 52
   • We talk a bit about the man crushes we have in common, recount our conquests, celebrate our fabulous younger selves. We don't talk about the men we lost, or how utterly decimating the eighties were, or how lucky we are to be sitting here, drinking ourselves silly.2005, Amy Scheibe, What Do You Do All Day?, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 65