manscaping

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noun

The practice of, or results from, trimming or shaving a male's hair, typically other than the hair atop and behind his head. The term applies most frequently to facial hair, including that of the eyebrows, ears, and nostrils; somewhat frequently to shoulders and back; less frequently to buttocks and pubes; infrequently to arms and legs.

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Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of manscape
nounmanscaping (uncountable)
  1. neologismuncountableThe practice of, or results from, trimming or shaving a male's hair, typically other than the hair atop and behind his head. The term applies most frequently to facial hair, including that of the eyebrows, ears, and nostrils; somewhat frequently to shoulders and back; less frequently to buttocks and pubes; infrequently to arms and legs.

    I was also in charge of what I considered to be an important part of the dressing room etiquette: manscaping.

    2016, Tie Domi, Shift Work, →ISBN, page 143
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    From this perspective, manscaping with the motive for sexual appeal seems part of this ever-escalating effort of advanced capitalism to domesticate all dimensions of sexuality (and nature).

    2010, Lisa Jean Moore, Mary Kosut, The Body Reader: Essential Social and Cultural Readings, →ISBN, page 297

    In addition to stacked-abs exercises, teeth whitening kits, and penile enhancement pharmaceuticals, manscaping is part of the ever-expanding list of tasks in the male body project.

    2014, Lisa Jean Moore, Monica J. Casper, The Body: Social and Cultural Dissections, →ISBN

    Manscaping is one grooming technique often sought out by the metrosexual, young, urban men with disposable incomes who care deeply about their appearances.

    2017, Erin Kenny, Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols, Beauty around the World: A Cultural Encyclopedia, →ISBN, page 219

    Still, there is a certain taboo around manscaping. For the purposes of this article, I have spoken to men who get everything waxed, and men – one man, I love this man – who says he shaves his armpits so he doesn’t have to buy deodorant as often.

    2024 August 29, Zoe Williams, “‘They handled me like a carcass!’: why are so many men now ‘manscaping’?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “manscaping,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/manscaping.

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