bod
noun
body.
bod
1 American
[bod]
/ bɒd /
noun
Informal.
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bods
plural
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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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And, despite a dad bod that hardly made him look like an elite athlete, Skenes did it by throwing hard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
On Wednesday, Murs shared a photo of a Daily Mail article dissecting his transformation from having a "huggable dad bod" to a more muscular physique.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2025
Jeremy Allen White put his bulked-up bod to the test in ‘The Iron Claw.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2024
This week the Internet went wild over Steve's angry man bod, glimpsed as he channels his rage into a speed bag installed in what used to be the bedroom he shared with his estranged wife.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2023
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
In such a lake, the dissolved O2 content is ≤5 ppm O2, BOD is high, and low O2-tolerant fish, such as carp and catfish dominate.
From Textbooks ● Sep. 6, 2018
Glad to see the tone deaf BOD "finally" did the right thing.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2018
I will not pretend to John Chen well, but I’ve presented to his BOD when he CEO at Sybase.
From Forbes ● Nov. 4, 2013
BOD, BODDY, s. a person of diminutive stature.
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
But it is also true that those who did focus on the bods, like Donatella Versace, did so in a traditionally gendered way.
From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2021
“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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