(HIM.boh)
n.
A man who is good-looking, but unintelligent or superficial.
Example Citation:
After three Garbage albums, Manson hasn't yet become a tedious pop princess. Undeniably charismatic, she can be distinguished from most of the pop world's thrusting teens and vainglorious himbos by one easy test: she has opinions.
—Sacha Molitorisz, "Talking Trash," Sydney Morning Herald, January 25, 2002
—Sacha Molitorisz, "Talking Trash," Sydney Morning Herald, January 25, 2002
Earliest Citation:
After a ruckus at the Robert Redford press conference early in the two-week run that left one injured reporter, festival-goers were hungry for violence. (Sex was commonplace, from a Melanie Griffith look-alike stuffed into her gown like salami in spandex to the macho himbo who strutted the Croisette wearing a 16-foot python like a stole around his shoulders and neck.)
—Rita Kempley, "At Cannes, All Ham, No Glam," The Washington Post, May 29, 1988
—Rita Kempley, "At Cannes, All Ham, No Glam," The Washington Post, May 29, 1988
Notes:
The word "himbo" is the result of a linguistic sex-change operation that sutured the male pronoun him onto the usually feminine insult bimbo. (Although bimbo is often dressed in a gender-neutral suit that gives it a meaning similar to bozo; i.e., a stupid or useless person.) It's a better blend than the less intelligible mimbo (male bimbo) mix that was coined in a Seinfeld episode.
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