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beefcake
[ beef-keyk ]
noun
- photographs of nearly nude young men in magazines or the like, posed to display their muscular bodies.
beefcake
/ ˈːˌɪ /
noun
- slang.men displayed for their muscular bodies, esp in photographs Compare cheesecake
Word History and Origins
Origin of beefcake1
Example Sentences
Only Elordi, variously treated like beefcake and brooder, seems lost trying to square Julius’ early vulnerability with the final act’s hopeful romance.
From there, your personal security detail can ferry you around town, to any number of errands, book signings, book burnings or, presumably, wherever you’d like to bring a few armed beefcakes.
But Albini never took easy money as an opportunity to coast: Listen to how carefully he gets the sound of fingers on guitar strings into this beefcake power ballad.
Pickpocketing Chekhov for dramatic capital is almost a rite of passage among playwrights, but only Christopher Durang invested the loot in beefcake.
The sort of magazine it envisions — essentially Ms., if it added beefcake centerfolds and became a newsstand blockbuster — didn’t exist.
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