Usually means: Exaggerated display of masculine traits.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word MACHO:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. macho: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. macho: Merriam-Webster
  3. MACHO, macho: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. MACHO, macho: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. macho: Collins English Dictionary
  6. macho: Vocabulary.com
  7. Macho, macho: Wordnik
  8. macho: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. MACHO, macho: Wiktionary
  10. macho: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. macho: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. macho: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. MACHO: Dictionary.com
  14. macho: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. macho: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. MACHO, Macho (album), Macho (disambiguation), Macho (film), Macho (surname), Macho: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Macho: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. macho: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. macho: Rhymezone
  20. Macho, macho: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. MACHO: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. macho: FreeDictionary.org
  23. macho: ESL Idiom Page
  24. macho: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. MACHO: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. macho: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MACHO: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MACHO: Extragalactic Astronomy

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Definitions from Wiktionary (MACHO)

▸ adjective:  (informal) Masculine in an overly assertive or aggressive way.
▸ noun:  A macho person; a man who is masculine in an overly assertive or aggressive way.
▸ noun:  Machismo
▸ noun:  The striped mullet of California (Mugil cephalus, syn. Mugil mexicanus).
▸ noun:  A male llama.
▸ noun:  Initialism of massive astrophysical compact halo object.

Similar:
masculine, butch, supermasculine, hypermacho, hypermasculinist, hypermasculine, hypermanly, virile, ultramacho, priapic, more...

Opposite:
effeminate, unmanly, womanly

Types:
alpha male, tough, manly, rugged, hard-boiled, hard-nosed, hard-assed, more...

Phrases:
macho man, macho dancer, Cry Macho, So Macho, opposite of macho, more...

Adjectives:
more, real, little, black, big, mexican, male, spanish, true, pretty, typical

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    black,     navy blue,     dark brown,     olive green,     steel gray, more...


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Similar:
masculine, butch, supermasculine, hypermacho, hypermasculinist, hypermasculine, hypermanly, virile, ultramacho, priapic, more...

Opposite:
effeminate, unmanly, womanly

Types:
alpha male, tough, manly, rugged, hard-boiled, hard-nosed, hard-assed, more...

Phrases:
macho man, macho dancer, Cry Macho, So Macho, opposite of macho, less macho, more...

Adjectives:
more, real, little, black, big, mexican, male, spanish, true, pretty, typical

Colors:
    black,     navy blue,     dark brown,     olive green,     steel gray, more...



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