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macho1
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adjective
Masculine in an overly assertive or aggressive way.
‘the big macho tough guy’- ‘Like a typical macho guy, he views his exile in Gayville not as a sign he might have some thinking to do, but as an educational experience that's made him a better lover to women.’
- ‘He behaved differently around other men in general and found himself slipping into a much more aggressive and macho posture in everyday life.’
- ‘The film also does an amiable job of revealing the ‘soul surfer’ culture behind these wave daredevils - even the overly macho dialogue seems natural in this context.’
- ‘I would like to find a guy who can handle that, but am also not looking for an overly macho type.’
- ‘I glanced at the security men, rent-a cops by their overly macho manner and cheap badges, and faced Paul.’
- ‘You always hear the stories of people that say, I'm macho and tough enough, I'm going to ride this thing out.’
- ‘I can say so many tough and macho things but when I actually settle down there, it's an entirely different story.’
- ‘The Dodge is the closest to the Titan in terms of macho styling and tough attitude.’
- ‘Eddie has a lot in common with Wolverine - he's all tough macho bravado on the outside, but inside he's a wounded human being looking for acceptance.’
- ‘But underneath that tough, macho veneer lies a tanned and buffed pretty boy with the vocabulary of a 12-year-old.’
- ‘It looks sporty, but with an unusually rigid, tough, macho appearance.’
- ‘In the tough, macho arena of rock climbing, one woman has beaten the boys at their own game.’
- ‘‘The Studs start off as macho guys who don't give a damn, but when they find they might lose their girlfriends, they realise they care more than they thought,’ Steel says.’
- ‘People (who I'm guessing are macho guys) are revving their cars up & down the streets outside.’
- ‘I'm not one of those macho guys who think men can't cry.’
- ‘Thus although young black men form rival gangs which have to be fought, their tough macho masculinity wins them respect from their white counterparts.’
- ‘I seem to remember a lot of guys with cheap macho posturing about killing them all and letting God sort them out, and so forth.’
- ‘Because they pretend, I think, to be macho guys, but you see what sentimentalists they really are.’
- ‘There were effeminate guys who were looking for more macho guys.’
male, aggressively male, masculine, unpleasantly masculineView synonyms
nounmachos
1A man who is aggressively proud of his masculinity.
‘I realized just what a macho I was at heart’- ‘In the rest of Mexico, coquettish gay extroverts like these would be hounded out of town by the local machos: there would be shouts of ‘putos’ or ‘jotos’ (poofs, faggots), cat-whistles, the odd missile.’
- ‘‘The maquiladoras were fed by thousands of young women who, in exchange for a salary, were abandoning traditional roles - and the machos reacted,’ the columnist said.’
- ‘For death - with which they all flirted, the matadors, the duelling machos, the fortune tellers - is now getting down to business.’
- ‘What will become of the little machos who already play the Pascha in kindergarten and grade school?’
- ‘As his hundreds of adventures with army recruits and other machos demonstrates, homosexual activity flourished, even among men who identified themselves as heterosexual.’
- ‘By showing these new machos turning themselves into cartoons, the writers try to persuade people not to take them seriously or follow where they lead.’
- ‘You see; his friends, as well as he, had always been machos and anti-feminist.’
- ‘Chalino's reputation as a valiente, a brave macho, was bolstered by the incident.’
- ‘Zack / Pollock is a Hemingway-hero of a painter, a boorish macho with an elemental connection to his medium.’
- ‘I did the craziest thing and I was unrivalled and accepted as the stud / macho / male/man/ruler by the guys.’
- ‘He had to be the macho, jerk, hot shot and save the day, while she, his partner, sat on the sidelines and watched the action.’
- ‘Conversely, to be in a relationship with a passionate and self-assured Latino doesn't imply subservience to the dominant macho.’
- ‘And finally, turning personal, how does this macho describe himself as an individual, apart from being body builder?’
red-blooded male, macho man, musclemanView synonyms- 1.1mass noun Machismo.‘The immense power of the trade unions was often ego and macho driven, and on many occasions that power was wielded mercilessly for short-term gain.’
- ‘Pride and passion, macho and vulnerability, competitiveness and exhaustion all intermingle on the stage.’
- ‘Fragile and very limited democracy wants to pass for macho.’
- ‘She may be a lesbian and a registered Democrat, but she swears an oath to macho, which is why it's fair to call her a homocon.’
- ‘The prestige of white macho has definitely taken a hit, and the resulting sense of loss moves many issues.’
- ‘I think what the subject needs is a little constructive macho.’
- ‘As the predators represent the pinnacle of macho, this still shows that she is subservient to the male symbolism.’
- ‘When it comes to macho, Bruno says there is only so much of that you can take.’
- ‘From a pure box-office point of view, all of us can surely relish the sort of muscular macho, the one-on-one confrontation on view when a Phil Vickery meets a Christian Califano.’
masculinity, aggressive masculinity, machismo, toughness, toxic masculinity, chauvinism, male chauvinism, sexism, laddishnessView synonyms
Origin
1920s from Mexican Spanish, ‘masculine or vigorous’.
MACHO2
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noun
AstronomyA relatively dark, dense object, such as a brown dwarf, a low-mass star, or a black hole, of a kind believed to occur in a halo around a galaxy and to contain a significant proportion of the galaxy's mass.
Origin
1990s acronym from Massive (Astrophysical) Compact Halo Object.
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