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It is an informal noun used to describe a person, often a lesbian, who is considered to display masculine characteristics. For example, "She was a strong, butch woman who always wore men's clothing."
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butch
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A lesbian who appears masculine or acts in a masculine manner.
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But as Alex Drake, a cop caught in a similar time-shifted quandary, she made the show the equal of its predecessor, repurposing the format from butch Sweeney homage to a deranged riff on Moonlighting with extra shoulderpads and speedboats.
I'm butch!
No sooner did the planes hit the twin towers and the Pentagon than America rediscovered its butch side.
The Ghost shares the butch looks, huge engine and imposing presence of its big brother, the Phantom, but is a snip by comparison.
LIKE professional wrestling, private equity has a butch subculture that is hard to take entirely seriously.
No word from the Republican front-runner, C.L. "Butch" Otter, who was once married to a Simplot daughter.If Idaho ends up staying mansionless, it will not be alone.
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Using that rationale, many lesbian feminists criticized butch-and-femme role-playing as mere imitation of an oppressive heterosexuality.
Butler's work was partly motivated by the desire to answer concerns that queer enactments of gender (as in a butch-femme relationship or in gay male drag) merely replicate traditional patriarchal norms.
South of Bariloche are a string of pleasant towns, including El Bolsón – a former hippy hangout, and still popular with Argentinian campers – and Cholila, where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid bought a ranch (you can visit Cassidy's log cabin there).
In several scenes, classic movies pop up on TV screens in the background—"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" here, "Heaven Can Wait" there and in one exchange Reese Witherspoon and Chris Pine banter about Alfred Hitchcock's early work.
They seem to do little to deter modern-day Butch Cassidys.
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