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macho | American Dictionary

macho
adjective
us/ˈmɑ·tʃoʊ/
behaving in a way that is thought to be typical of a man, esp. by seeming strong and powerful but also seeming too determined to avoid showing weakness and sympathy:
He’s too macho to admit that a woman can do his job as well as he can.

Examples of macho

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As shown, this process of gendering mobilizes two main and largely contrastive representations of men as soft (feminine) and hard (tough, macho).
The plots of the most famous films inevitably glorify macho behaviour and anti-social crime as antidotes to class and race tensions.
The emaciated theatrical presence of the body seems to be the result of these macho pressures from outside.
Women who do physically hard work and develop muscles are often called ' macho'.
In punk, virtuosic display was replaced by aggressive simplicity and macho posturing, which could be found in both music and lyrics.
Such responses, often heard when philosophers confront scientists with their metaphysical scruples, do not just express a macho attitude.
Equally, men preferred not to discuss their military experiences with each other, but hid their traumatic memories behind displays of macho posturing.
Some writers oppose the macho reading precisely because they know fans or are fans themselves.
In conversation, boys also reiterated a 'macho' image in their views of themselves.
Coates attempts to understand/ contextualise women's involvement in rock music from the premise that rock music is at its most compelling when it is most misogynistic and macho.
Whiteley's cogent analysis highlights the potential for blurring of genders and sexuality, in even the most apparently macho of performers.
Koizumi maintained a relatively high rate of approval up until the end of his government, but the lurking danger - a very macho danger -was always palpable under his populist façade.
They must think about the teenagers who are bombarded with images of glamour and macho dynamic sports.
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