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noun
1.
a strong or exaggerated sense of manliness; an assumptive attitude that virility, courage, strength, and entitlement to dominate are attributes or concomitants of masculinity.
2.
a strong or exaggerated sense of power or the right to dominate: The military campaign was an exercise in national machismo.
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Machismo
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example Sentences
- The dunk is a declaration of power and dominance, of machismo.
- Spliced to an immature glorifying of war as some sort of machismo virtue.
- And dont stop there, do it to all the spineless punks who cant fight themselves,and use dogs to boost there machismo.
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
machismo
1940, from Amer.Sp. machismo, from Sp. macho "male" (see macho) + ismo "-ism."
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