"hardbody" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "hard + body",
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      "form": "hardbodies",
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Phillip Oppenheim, Maggie to Margaritas",
          "text": "\"This town's stuffed with A-list hardbody superbabes,\" he confided in me — \"Idaho farm girls, preacher's daughters from Ohio, Alabama college girls — every last cute-assed one of them wants to be an actress.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Laurie Channer, Godblog, Dundurn, page 68",
          "text": "No hardbody, Maria's was a soft, squishy middle, probably from a few too many whipped cream indulgences on shift.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Jeffrey A. Brown, Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture, Univ. Press of Mississippi, page 25",
          "text": "Certainly the action heroine is often filmed to accentuate her body, but this new hardbody is not offered up as a mere sexual commodity. While the well-toned muscular female body is obviously an ideal in this age of physical fitness, it is presented in these films as first and foremost a functional body, a weapon. ... Where once stood silicone-injected breasts and delicate shoulders, now stands ripped pecs and striated delts.",
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        {
          "ref": "2014, James Kendrick, Darkness in the Bliss-Out: A Reconsideration of the Films of Steven Spielberg, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, page 115",
          "text": "The “hardbody film,” a term that was first coined by Susan Jeffords, is defined by Drew Ayers as: ... What is unique to this cycle of films is the focus on the body of the male hero, a body that is fetishized for its hard and sculpted muscularity and/or its athletic skill and physical prowess.",
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        "An attractive body enhanced through weightlifting."
      ],
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  "word": "hardbody"
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  "etymology_text": "hard + body",
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        "Designating a kind of large, tough chicken with strong bones."
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          "bone",
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        "(Africa) Designating a kind of large, tough chicken with strong bones."
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  "etymology_text": "hard + body",
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          "ref": "2003, Phillip Oppenheim, Maggie to Margaritas",
          "text": "\"This town's stuffed with A-list hardbody superbabes,\" he confided in me — \"Idaho farm girls, preacher's daughters from Ohio, Alabama college girls — every last cute-assed one of them wants to be an actress.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Laurie Channer, Godblog, Dundurn, page 68",
          "text": "No hardbody, Maria's was a soft, squishy middle, probably from a few too many whipped cream indulgences on shift.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Jeffrey A. Brown, Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture, Univ. Press of Mississippi, page 25",
          "text": "Certainly the action heroine is often filmed to accentuate her body, but this new hardbody is not offered up as a mere sexual commodity. While the well-toned muscular female body is obviously an ideal in this age of physical fitness, it is presented in these films as first and foremost a functional body, a weapon. ... Where once stood silicone-injected breasts and delicate shoulders, now stands ripped pecs and striated delts.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2014, James Kendrick, Darkness in the Bliss-Out: A Reconsideration of the Films of Steven Spielberg, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, page 115",
          "text": "The “hardbody film,” a term that was first coined by Susan Jeffords, is defined by Drew Ayers as: ... What is unique to this cycle of films is the focus on the body of the male hero, a body that is fetishized for its hard and sculpted muscularity and/or its athletic skill and physical prowess.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An attractive body enhanced through weightlifting."
      ],
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        ],
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          "weightlifting",
          "weightlifting"
        ]
      ]
    }
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  "word": "hardbody"
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        "Designating a kind of large, tough chicken with strong bones."
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