beefcake

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.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

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.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • shredded
  • built like a tank
  • have (someone's or something's) good points
  • have your good, plus, etc. points
  • have (someone's or something's) plus points
  • just gay enough
  • cheesecake
  • beach body
  • (not) half the person/man/woman (one) used to be
  • dad bod
References in periodicals archive
Who will face Brutus Beefcake and will somebody get a haircut?
WBW Comes to Sardinia, Ohio with Brutus Beefcake
In 1952, the beefcake mag Physique Pictorial put a picture by artist George Quaintance on its cover.
Cowboys on the cover of a magazine
Beefcake's period-style art design and narration maintains a nostalgic atmosphere for most of the film.
Foucauldian muscles: celebrating the male body in Thom Fitzgerald's Beefcake
* No Chippendales this time around, but the beefcake quotient was more than taken care of by regular battles fought by He-Man at Mattel.
Around And About
Though there was joking among the after-party crowd about the "tribal mix-and-match" that filled the epic with multicultural beefcake ("Gold's Gym was empty on the days they were shooting"), the Rock's appeal was taken seriously.
`King' gets in ring. (Life)
TWELVE farmers have stripped off to pose for a ''beefcake'' calendar in a lighthearted bid to highlight the crisis in the industry.
Farmers present bare facts on beefcake
SCOTS BEEFCAKE Suave Gav Duncan Davie Scott had to be ushered out for all our safety as his cuddly frame had tipped the scales out of our favour.
Drool and the gang's date night
Theo James "Divergent" girlfriend Shailene Woodley preparing for "Beefcake" cast boyfriend for "Insurgent"?
'Divergent' Star Shailene Woodley & Masculine Theo James to Come Closer in 'Insurgent' Shoot?
DeVito added that he thought the British star was just one of the beefcake guys before reporters told him that Beckham was a "soccer player".
Comic Danny DeVito asks Becks to 'keep his pants off ' to show amazing butt
HE was riddled with bullets a fortnight ago but Sean Enright has vowed to compete in a beefcake contest in October.
VICTIM BACK IN RING
TWILIGHT beefcake Taylor Lautner strikes out on his own in the action-packed thriller Abduction, in which he attempts to prove he's much more than a pretty face with washboard abs.
also showing
The beefcake star has admitted he's been naughty during their 25-year marriage, even allegedly fathering a love child with his former housekeeper.
Family ignore Arnie's pleas; Kat Keogh gets her claws into celebrity culture
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.
Hot band
If you're into country rock n' roll then this beefed-up beefcake lot are your ultimate.
Albums
Beefcake Hugh, 40, brought the surfers' paradise to a standstill as he emerged from the water, sporting a glistening six-pack.
Hugh's pecs secret