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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
beefcake

by 1952, "display of male pulchritude" in movies or magazines; said to have been modeled on cheesecake, but there seems to have been an actual foodstuff called beefcake around this time. The word seems to be little used in that literal sense since the other sense emerged.

Wiktionary
beefcake

n. 1 (&lit beef cake English) 2 (context informal uncountable English) imagery of one or more muscular, well-built men. 3 (context informal countable English) Such a male, especially as seen as physically desirable.

WordNet
beefcake

n. a photograph of a muscular man in minimal attire

Wikipedia
Beefcake

Beefcake is a performance or photograph depicting a large and muscular male body. Beefcake is also a publication genre. A role a person plays in a performance may be called beefcake. The term was believed to be first used by Hollywood columnist Sidney Skolsky.

Beefcake (film)

Beefcake (1999) is a docu-drama homage to the muscle magazines of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s—in particular, Physique Pictorial magazine, published quarterly by Bob Mizer of the Athletic Model Guild. It was inspired by a picture book by F. Valentine Hooven III (published by Taschen) and was directed by Thom Fitzgerald.

The film stars Daniel MacIvor, Carroll Godsman, Jack Griffin Mazieka, Jonathan Torrens, and Joshua Peace in pastiche recreations of life at the Athletic Model Guild, mixed with interviews with models and photographers whose work actually appeared in the early magazines, including Jack LaLanne and Joe Dallesandro. The film was shot in Nova Scotia.

Beefcake premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1999 and was released by Strand Releasing in the United States; it was nominated for three Genie Awards.

Beefcake (disambiguation)

Beefcake is a body shape.

Beefcake may also refer to:

  • Beefcake (film), a 1999 comedy film
  • Beefcake (band), a Glaswegian music group

Usage examples of "beefcake".

A girl would have to be crazy to miss all that beefcake on a big screen.

Introduce me to the piece of beefcake the cat thinks you should do the big nasty with.

Probably another over-inflated, self-loving, brainless beefcake like all the others the writers kept sticking her with.

Connor was a massive, beefcake of a man, with a full head of strawberry blond hair and baby blue eyes.

I guess I could have called my mom, but then I would have had to spend the evening hearing about her upcoming bachelorette party at Beefcakes and just how many twenties she was taking with her.

Rosenblatt agreed to give me a ride back to Beefcakes, where my little red Jeep had spent the night.

He drank a gallon of hot black coffee while Toby cooked him up some boiled beefcakes and waffles, with blueberries on the side.

Cops, Courts, and Lawyers Latest arrests close out bad year for police January I, 1986 I watched them on TV the other night, the beefcake cops charged with murder.

Danny straightened his tie and smoothed his shirtfront, his beefcake prelude to begging favors.