six-pack

six-pack
n
a.
the male abdomen showing the stomach muscles
He's got a great six-pack.
b.
a powerful and/or attractive male
The beach was covered with six-packs.
These uses of the term, based on a com-parison with a row of beer cans, arose in the US in the early 1990s and by the end of the decade were also heard (especially in the second sense) in the UK.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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