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hardbody en · ADJ

Etymology

From hard + body.

Meanings

1. (Africa, not-comparable) Designating a kind of large, tough chicken with strong bones.

hardbody en · NOUN

Etymology

From hard + body.

Meanings

1. An attractive body enhanced through weightlifting.
   • 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:
   • "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:
   • Certainly the action heroine is often filmed to accentuate her body, but this new hardbody is not offered up as a mere sexual commodity. While the well-toned muscular female body is obviously an ideal in this age of physical fitness, it is presented in these films as first and foremost a functional body, a weapon. ... Where once stood silicone-injected breasts and delicate shoulders, now stands ripped pecs and striated delts. 2011, Jeffrey A. Brown, Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture, Univ. Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 25:
   • The “hardbody film,” a term that was first coined by Susan Jeffords, is defined by Drew Ayers as: ... What is unique to this cycle of films is the focus on the body of the male hero, a body that is fetishized for its hard and sculpted muscularity and/or its athletic skill and physical prowess. 2014, James Kendrick, Darkness in the Bliss-Out: A Reconsideration of the Films of Steven Spielberg, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 115:

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