bod
noun
body.
bod
1 American
[bod]
/ bɒd /
noun
Informal.
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bods
plural
-
body.
You've got to have a great bod to look good in that bathing suit.
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Chiefly British. person.
We need a few more bods to help with the extra work.
BOD
2
American
bod
1
British
/ bɒd /
noun
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a fellow; chap
he's a queer bod
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another word for body
BOD
2
British
abbreviation
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of bod
First recorded in 1780–90; short for body
Example Sentences
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Determined to get rid of his "dad bod", Sion decided to transform his health, documenting his journey on YouTube and Instagram.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026
Everyone wants to know if Luka is fit, or lugging around a Doncic dad bod.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2025
Jeremy Allen White put his bulked-up bod to the test in ‘The Iron Claw.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2024
Instead, he's throwing in with the mere mortals and dragging him down the dad bod route.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2022
So the damysell was bod a wayke thyng, and hur maistres was ferd at sho sulde take colde, and she commaundid hur befor Te Deum to go vnto the dortur to her bed agayn.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Eileen Power
If the BOD of tesla made an announcement on what’s happening with tesla leadership.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2022
The dissolved oxygen content in such a river ranges from 10 to 14 ppm O2, BOD is low, and clean-water fish such as trout.
From Textbooks ● Sep. 6, 2018
Glad to see the tone deaf BOD "finally" did the right thing.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2018
The message from the Lansdowne Road faithful was clear: You don't mess with BOD - or GOD, as they also like to call him - and expect to get away with it.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2014
BODE, BOD, s. an offer made prior to a bargain; a proffer.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. by Alexander Leighton
We’re talking cameras and sensors that automate line calls, as if your clash of the dad bods were the Wimbledon final.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
A few of the Elvis outfits on dad bods looked pretty rundown or were ripped in unfortunate places.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2022
“That should be the title: dad bods around the world rejoice!”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2021
The men looked like retired hockey players who had eased themselves into dad bods.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 20, 2016
Here, Ralph, the Bottle, Rogue, of Sack, ye Rascal; hadst thou been a Butler worth hanging, thou wou'dst have met us at the door with it.—Ods bods, Sweet-heart, thy health.
From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Montague Summers
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