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
-
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
My husband does bod get varra little upo th' hand-loom i' th' best o' times—5s. a week or so.
From Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine by Edwin Waugh
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
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
“That should be the title: dad bods around the world rejoice!”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2021
Any info on safe exercise for 70 years with worn out bods?
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2018
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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