different between beefcake vs centerfold

English

Alternative forms

• beef-cake

Etymology

From beef +? cake, by analogy with cheesecake (“an image of a sexy young woman”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bi?f?ke?k/

Noun

beefcake (countable and uncountable, plural beefcakes)

1. (informal, uncountable) Imagery of one or more muscular, well-built men.

   Coordinate term: cheesecake

2. (informal, countable) Such a male, especially as seen as physically desirable.

   Synonyms: lady-killer, hunk, adonis

   • 2014, Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes: A Novel, Simon and Schuster (?ISBN)

     The audience goes bugshit. The security beefcakes separate them and the host gets between them, talking in a voice that is soothing on top, inciteful beneath.

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beef,? cake.
   • 1998, Jessie Tirsch, McGuire's Irish Pub Cookbook, Pelican, page 145:

     Beefcake with Burgundy Mushroom Cream

Related terms

• beefy

Translations

Further reading

• beefcake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Alternative forms

• centrefold (mostly British)

Etymology

center +? fold

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: s?n?t?r-f?ld, IPA^(key): /?s?nt?fo?ld/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?nt?f??ld/

Noun

centerfold (plural centerfolds) (American spelling)

1. The single sheet of paper that forms the middle two pages of a magazine or other publication.
2. A large photograph printed on this sheet, typically in the form of a nude, or provocatively dressed, sexually attractive woman or man.

   Synonym: pin-up

3. The person appearing in such a photograph.

   Synonyms: pin-up, (woman) pin-up girl
4. (by extension) Any very sexually attractive person, who is therefore material for such a photograph.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:beautiful man, Thesaurus:beautiful woman

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