bod
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9.8
- noun
- /bɑd/
- Slang
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tipo
- Our top-of-the-line Model A bods sold for around two hundred thousand bucks a pop.
- odd bods
- buff bod
- hot bod
Examples
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What a bod.
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I spend half my waking time working to buff up the bod so someone else can enjoy it, and this is what I come home to?
Fiction book (1998) -
Look here, odd bod, I have to dash.
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We got that guy, we got two bods in the back.
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Well, there are a few odd bods out there, a few!
Academic text (2004) -
Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a perfectly normal boy.
Blog text (1) -
- Who's that with the gorgeous bod?
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What a bod!
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I had always understood you systematic bods to be a singularly light-hearted and witty bunch.
Blog text (29) -
I met a new bod at the party last night who was really friendly.
Synonyms
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9.6
An informal word for an object or person whose name you cannot remember
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9.7
A casual word people use to address a friend or peer
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bod can also mean a person in informal speech because it comes from the same short form of body, and English uses body to mean 'someone' in words like somebody and everybody. So calling someone a bod is a casual way to say 'person'.