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body man en · NOUN

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1. A male personal assistant.
   • "We're like The Bucket List, right, Billy?" asks Chris Burch, who is sitting in the front seat of the Escalade that is being maneuvered through Soho traffic by Bill Allen, his body man of twenty-one years. 2013, Dean Starkman, Martha M. Hamilton, Ryan Chittum, The Best Business Writing 2013, page 257:
   • Owens, my body man, didn't like heights. 2014, M.J. Scott, Fire Kin:
   • Of the $30,000-a-plate dinner at the Four Seasons in 2010, at which Obama, after devoting a brisk seven minutes to each table, retreated to a private room to sup with Jarrett and his body man, Reggie Love—a tale that traveled so widely it became a sort of urban legend. 2013, John Heilemann, Mark Halperin, Double Down, page 30:
   • Usually terrific with names, the interrupted president had just had a very human brain fart. Jay, his “body man,” sprang forward to remedy this. 2009, David Baldacci, First Family: King and Maxwell:
2. A man who works on auto bodies.
   • According to manufacturer, the body man has complete control when using the new tools because the application of power is so gradual he can feel the metal unlock itself. 1958, Autobody and the Reconditioned Car, volumes 37-38:

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