US /bɑd/ UK /bɒd/
noun

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    (informal) a person; the human body

    He's a friendly old bod who lives down the lane.

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Synonyms
1 noun · (informal) a person; the... personbodyfellowchapindividualfigurephysique
Word family
Related forms body

Etymology

A 20th-century colloquial shortening of body, from Old English bodig ('trunk, frame, chest'), of uncertain further origin with no clear cognates outside West Germanic.

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