as in hunk
a physically attractive man
an iconic beefcake of Hollywood in the 1940s, he always appeared shirtless in at least one scene
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Recent Examples of beefcake
The audience is free to ogle beefcake, but Cope doesn’t get any action.
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Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2025
Only Elordi, variously treated like beefcake and brooder, seems lost trying to square Julius’ early vulnerability with the final act’s hopeful romance.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2025
After a decade of serving nothing but beefcake, the FDNY started including women firefighters, paramedics and EMTs in 2014.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 23 Mar. 2025
Seth Bogart’s ceramic beefcake body-builder Oscar was also a head-turner.
—Michael Slenske, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for beefcake
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Put a few hunks of cornbread on your greens and top them with the juices for a life-changing experience.—
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On the other hand, there is the new Whitney, whose west side, facing the Hudson, resembles a ship with a white sail—if the sail were a hunk of Styrofoam and the ship sinking.—
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The Horned Frogs bring back Zach Chapman and Paul Oyewale at defensive end, but need to replace Devean Deal and Jonathan Bax at stud.—
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United were struggling to make those mistakes pay until Thiaw got his studs caught in the turf and fell to the ground.—
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Every eyeful was a universe, a cosmos squeezed into a teacup.—
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After sports commentator Nate Burleson stuffed America's collective stocking with an eyeful of bright red Christmas attire on Netflix's NFL Christmas Day livestream, cohost and former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan poked back.—
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The same outlet had previously reported that Urban’s been a womanizer for years.—
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Here, Victor Frankenstein (Ralph Bates) is a posh womanizer and stone-cold sociopath.—
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“Beefcake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beefcake. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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