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beefcake

A man displayed or photographed for having an attractive, muscular physique, or one who has these qualities in general. I always buy the fire station's charity calendar because I love looking at the beefcakes in their firefighter outfits.

beefcake

1. n. a display of the male physique. (see also cheesecake.) There was one calendar showing beefcake rather than the usual cheesecake.

2. n. a muscularly handsome male. She’s been going out with a real beefcake.

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To be quite honest, I'm not sure the market in beefcake has ever suffered a particular setback because of the rise of the skinny man.

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In 1952, the beefcake mag Physique Pictorial put a picture by artist George Quaintance on its cover.

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Beefcake, a digest-sized publication, also introduced popularized drawings by the now-famous Art-Bob, Etienne, George Quaintance, and Tom of Finland, and this publication has in recent years become a highly valued collectible (Cagle).

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HE was riddled with bullets a fortnight ago but Sean Enright has vowed to compete in a beefcake contest in October.

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ne Gi FIRMS have branded a new beefcake tax from bungling Gideon Osborne as bonkers.

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The beefcake star has admitted he's been naughty during their 25-year marriage, even allegedly fathering a love child with his former housekeeper.

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Michael Lombardi, who plays beefcake flame-beater Mike Silleti on "Rescue Me," will be on a seek-and-destroy mission this weekend when he brings his New York City-based hard rock outfit Apache Stone to The Raven in Worcester.

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If you're into country rock n' roll then this beefed-up beefcake lot are your ultimate.

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Beefcake Hugh, 40, brought the surfers' paradise to a standstill as he emerged from the water, sporting a glistening six-pack.

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The Magic Sign make the Argentinian beefcake 20-1 to win another Major this season, and they go 5-2 about a European finishing first at Carnoustie

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Marieta's narcoleptic blackouts provide the convention for the often-flashy musical numbers (with songs by David Bowie, Queen, Ani DiFranco, and Madonna, among others), while Pablo Puyol brings the beefcake as the ultramacho love interest who just can't get enough of Marieta's "extra flesh.

Well-endowed

This device could only shoot phantasmatically, while the mostly anonymous photographers were left striving to realize with actual cameras and willing beefcake equivalents in the world.

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Kevin has scant screen time and we're ultimately left wondering why two grown women would end up fighting over the same two-dimensional beefcake.