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X-appeal
Definition
1. An abbreviated form of sex appeal. See sex appeal for synonyms. 2. Camp word for masculine sex appeal.
SYNONYMS: beefcake; masculine quotient; MQ.
QUOTES:
(1) Reporter Jake Callahan (Lynne Overman) about sleazy lawyer Billy Flynn (Adolphe Menjou) in Roxie Hart (1942): ' Sex appeal rises from him like a cloud of steam.'
(2) Dorinda Durston (Holly Hunter) speaking about Ted Baker (Brad Johnson) in Always (1989): ' He's too beautiful. He's too much twisted steel and sex appeal. I can't be with a guy who looks like I won him in a raffle.'
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