Adjective
the macho world of football Noun
their annual guys-only hunting trip is a celebration of macho
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Adjective
After watching the rise of macho trophy hunting of sharks following the film, even director Steven Spielberg felt remorse for giving sharks such a terrible reputation–particulary of the film’s main non-human character, the white shark (Carcharodon carcharias).—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 9 July 2025 Majors' painfully awkward gym rat goes down a spectacularly bad path of protein shakes, steroids, rage issues, misplaced idolatry and macho posedowns in an effort to craft the perfect physique.—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 4 July 2025
Noun
In the 20th century, macho came to mean an exaggerated or even somewhat aggressive kind of masculinity, often with humorous undertones.—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025 And the ultra macho (and sometimes clueless) Rick Ford is having none of this.—Mike Ryan, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for macho
Word History
Etymology
Adjective
Spanish, literally, male, from Latin masculus — more at masculine
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