(n.) A gambling game in vogue in the eighteenth century.
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Macho
Definition:
(n.) The striped mullet of California (Mugil cephalus, / Mexicanus).
Example Sentences:
(1) There is no better symbol of London’s macho financialisation than the early 21st-century surge in skyscraper construction, the lanky delinquent mob of new towers that cluster around the City, and their gangmaster, the Shard.
(2) An intensive 6-month schedule of drugs was devised with both systemic and central nervous system activity, known by the acronym 'MACHO', to treat 24 newly and consecutively diagnosed children, 13 with stage IV B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (B-NHL) and 11 with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (B-ALL).
(3) October 17, 2012 2.21am BST Oh, a bit of a to-do between Macho Mitt and Obama, over federal licenses and oil drilling, and Mitt's looking a bit Al Gore 2000 here, wandering around being all aggro and complaining about the rules.
(4) It’s the furthest from the male macho look you could get.
(5) "I think that Britain's broadband vision needs to be about more people using broadband rather than macho claims about the speed of the technology," she said.
(6) Labour now wants to own this mantle of macho, to keep the momentum of cruelty going in the name of responsibility, But lets get real.
(7) The wealthier and older clients are provided with sexual services within a setting that might be described as a "macho theater" in which social needs are also allowed expression.
(8) One was the anti-colonial instincts of some African churches, where the style of leadership is extremely macho.
(9) When I handed in my notice, I was told there was no budget to give me a pay rise, yet the guy who replaced me (and had less experience) was offered £10k more.” Lipstick and lap-dancing Beyond structural gender disparities, many respondents complained of a “macho, misogynist culture”, with bosses organising events at strip clubs, and frequent commentary on women’s bodies the norm.
(10) But for the first time in five clásicos there was no red card for Mourinho's macho team.
(11) Nonetheless, the feds’ approach is a sea-change from the early 1990s, when a macho paramilitary culture and aggressive rules of engagement approved at the highest levels were ingrained in the FBI and contributed to disasters the bureau is now anxious never to repeat.
(12) 'Macho v macho': what to expect from Putin-Trump negotiations Read more A statement from Trump’s transition team said Putin offered congratulations on winning “a historic election”.
(13) But we do need to make sure that more women are more involved at a higher level in Greater Manchester politics, without a doubt, and as mayor that’s what I would do, and make sure there was that representation at the highest level, because there can’t be any sense that it’s a macho world or closed world in any way.
(14) The humanitarian sector is still a very macho world.
(15) Some mentioned a macho, sexist culture, and others said they felt patronised by a cloying paternalism.
(16) 'Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion' Reading this on mobile?
(17) Putin is known for burnishing his image with macho stunts and this is not the first time the truth has proved less than heroic.
(18) I’ve never come across it in sport because you’re a sportsman, it’s a macho thing, so it never enters your head.” If we are going to be generous, they were different times and there were lots of clubs in those days operating with these attitudes.
(19) He is masculine but defiantly anti-macho, and his unpanicked air of sexual fluidity has lent itself to a run of gay gangsters: he was Richard Burton's bit of rough in Villain , a carnally carnivorous mob boss in Sexy Beast , and a slinky, elegant hood in 44 Inch Chest .
(20) "By making the hero a girl, he took all that macho stuff out of the equation and that gave him the freedom to examine heroism.