0 behaving forcefully or showing no emotion in a way traditionally thought to be typical of a man:
He's too macho to admit he was hurt when his girlfriend left him.
I can't stand macho men.
1 behaving in a way that is thought to be typical of a man, esp. by seeming strong and powerful but also seeming too determined to avoid showing weakness and sympathy:
As shown, this process of gendering mobilizes two main and largely contrastive representations of men as soft (feminine) and hard (tough, macho).
The plots of the most famous films inevitably glorify macho behaviour and anti-social crime as antidotes to class and race tensions.
The emaciated theatrical presence of the body seems to be the result of these macho pressures from outside.
Women who do physically hard work and develop muscles are often called ' macho'.
In punk, virtuosic display was replaced by aggressive simplicity and macho posturing, which could be found in both music and lyrics.
Such responses, often heard when philosophers confront scientists with their metaphysical scruples, do not just express a macho attitude.
Equally, men preferred not to discuss their military experiences with each other, but hid their traumatic memories behind displays of macho posturing.
Some writers oppose the macho reading precisely because they know fans or are fans themselves.
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