Informal display of the figure of a nude, or partly nude, muscular man, as in a magazine photograph
Origin of beefcake
beef (noun) + (cheese)cakebeefcake
beef·cake beefcake
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beefcake
noun
Informal- Images, especially photographs, of attractive, usually scantily attired men with muscular physiques.
- The men depicted in such images.
Origin of beefcake
beef (cheese)cakeTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural beefcakes)
Origin
From beef + cake, by analogy with cheesecake (“an image of a sexy young woman”).
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