metrosexual
nounEtymology
Blend of metropolitan + heterosexual, equivalent to metro- + -sexual. Coined by British writer Mark Simpson in 1994, it enjoyed a brief popularity in the early 2000s.
Definitions
A man — typically urban, heterosexual, and affluent — who is concerned with personal…
A man — typically urban, heterosexual, and affluent — who is concerned with personal appearance, such as personal grooming, fashion, and aesthetics in general.
- Reports of the "death" of my Frankenstein's monster with perfect skin, the metrosexual, have been greatly exaggerated. In Europe and the UK at least, it seems he's alive and looking very well in his lovely new eyeliner.
A heterosexual man who is seen, sociologically, as having attributes common to…
A heterosexual man who is seen, sociologically, as having attributes common to homosexuals.
Of or relating to a metrosexual or the metrosexual lifestyle.
- But one question stuck out beyond all the others. What on earth would a metrosexual, black Abe Lincoln look like?
- Of course Chandler was the romantic lead. His was the spirit of the age: self-deprecating, metrosexual, all ironic distance, no ambition.
The neighborhood
- synonymboulevardier
- synonymdandy (19th Century)
- synonymfop (19th Century)
- synonymdude
- synonymdood
- synonymman about town
- synonymmasher
- synonymdandy
- synonymsensualist
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for metrosexual. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA