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Discover LudwigThe word "bod" is not standard in written English.
It is often used informally to refer to a person's body, particularly in slang contexts.
Example: "He's been hitting the gym and really likes showing off his bod."
Alternatives: "Body" or "Physique."
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This gives the microbes enough time to absorb dissolved organics from the sewage, reducing the BOD.
The steady flow of sewage over these growths allows the microbes to absorb the dissolved organics, thus lowering the BOD of the sewage.
Cheap and cheerful Aldi and Lidl are increasingly favoured by shoppers but Shore Capital's retail bod Clive Black thinks quality will out, particularly at this time of year.
Virgin's online live chat bod says they probably never released others.
So, what is a dad bod? "The dad bod is a nice balance between a beer gut and working out," she explains.
Replace a Brazilian and a bikini bod with a clean house and home cooked food and wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am, we're back in the 1950s.
"The dad bod says, 'I go to the gym occasionally, but I also drink heavily on the weekends and enjoy eating eight slices of pizza at a time.' It's not an overweight guy, but it isn't one with washboard abs, either".
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Even if you make it for him in that workroom of yours, I don't see Kevin Costner in those tight-bod outfits, although I know he was at your fabulous after-show party.
Equally, there's a doolally reaction from 6,000 fans when, after his oven-fresh dad-bod anthem Let's Eat, Macklemore yells: "Make some noise for food!" That he can switch between cartoonish braggadocio, thorny flashes of self-doubt and surprisingly intense progressive proselytising without giving fans whiplash is testament to Macklemore's big-tent charisma.
If there's one good thing to come out of the referendum, perhaps it's this: the annual airing of Cameron's dad-bod in Cornwall isn't front-page news any more.
In the late 19th century, for example, the Dad-bod was the perfect-bod.
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