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beef⋅cake

  [beef-keyk]
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–noun Informal.
photographs of nearly nude young men in magazines or the like, posed to display their muscular bodies.
Origin:
1945–50; beef + cake, modeled on cheesecake
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beef·cake   (bēf'kāk')   
n.   Informal
  1. Images, especially photographs, of minimally attired men with muscular physiques.
  2. Attractive men with muscular physiques, such as those in these images.

[beef + (cheese)cake.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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