bod

plural bods

1. slangThe body.

   Fred likes to keep his bod in shape.

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   We are talking about a major bod here, and I don't care if half of it is plastic.

   1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 129

   Harkin: Hey there, sweetheart. You looking for some fun? 'Cause I gotta say that soldier getup looks real good on that bod of yours.

   2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Chora's Den, Citadel

2. slangA person.

   There were cameras covering car parks, offices, corridors and storage areas in the basement. Result. The security bods started watching as if their lives depended on it.

   2005, Richard Templar, The Rules of Management, page 73

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   He went to the upstairs lookout and peered down upon the political bod, whom he recognised as the fatso who had given a thin, starving speech one lunch-time to the new High School students[.]

   1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 113

   People such as William James and the Stephensons (with whom he collaborated) may have been the movers and shakers of the early railways, but there was other, less exalted bods who constructed all the paraphernalia - including stations.

   2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and Facts behind railway plaques: Reading (1840)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 56

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of biochemical oxygen demand.
2. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of biological oxygen demand.
3. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of benefit of the doubt.
4. abbreviationinitialismbusinessInitialism of beginning of day.

   Synonyms: SOD, SOD · Antonyms: EOD, EOB, COB, EOW

5. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of board of directors.
6. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Brightlingsea One Design (sailing boat class).

1. Oxford University slangThe Bodleian Library.

   Synonyms: Bodder