hardbody

plural hardbodies

1. An attractive body enhanced through weightlifting.

   No hardbody, Maria's was a soft, squishy middle, probably from a few too many whipped cream indulgences on shift.

   2008, Laurie Channer, Godblog, Dundurn, →ISBN, page 68

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   "This town's stuffed with A-list hardbody superbabes," he confided in me — "Idaho farm girls, preacher's daughters from Ohio, Alabama college girls — every last cute-assed one of them wants to be an actress.

   2003, Phillip Oppenheim, Maggie to Margaritas

   Certainly the action heroine is often filmed to accentuate her body, but this new hardbody is not offered up as a mere sexual commodity. While the well-toned muscular female body is obviously an ideal in this age of physical fitness, it is presented in these films as first and foremost a functional body, a weapon. ... Where once stood silicone-injected breasts and delicate shoulders, now stands ripped pecs and striated delts.

   2011, Jeffrey A. Brown, Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture, Univ. Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 25

   The “hardbody film,” a term that was first coined by Susan Jeffords, is defined by Drew Ayers as: ... What is unique to this cycle of films is the focus on the body of the male hero, a body that is fetishized for its hard and sculpted muscularity and/or its athletic skill and physical prowess.

   2014, James Kendrick, Darkness in the Bliss-Out: A Reconsideration of the Films of Steven Spielberg, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 115

1. Africanot comparableDesignating a kind of large, tough chicken with strong bones.