Adjective
the macho world of football Noun
their annual guys-only hunting trip is a celebration of macho
Recent Examples on the Web
Adjective
Mysterious yet friendly, macho but vulnerable, Austin transforms everything for Craig, until his obsessive and childlike nature threatens to ruin the friendship, and possibly everything else in his life.—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2024 Spanish trans actress Karla Sofia Gascón is contending for Best Actress for her dual leading role as a macho drug kingpin who transitions to being a woman, with Zoe Saldana and Selena Gomez in the Supporting Actress category.—Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 18 Sep. 2024
Noun
The father wants the boy to be a macho because surely his own father forced him to be one.—John Hopewell, Variety, 5 Aug. 2024 Butler and Reedus play members of the Vandals, an eventual gang led by a macho Tom Hardy, while Comer plays a suburban Chicagoan who gets swept up in their community of lost souls.—Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 20 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for macho
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Word History
Etymology
Adjective
Spanish, literally, male, from Latin masculus — more at masculine
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