Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A heterosexual man who is sensitive to stereotypic feminine interests and is very concerned with personal appearance, as in grooming and dressing stylishly.

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  • noun A man concerned with personal appearance, such as personal grooming, fashion, and aesthetics in general; who may or may not be concerned with self-indulgence and money. (Usually urban, heterosexual, often affluent).
  • noun A man who is seen, sociologically, as having attributes common to homosexuals, but is in fact heterosexual.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[metro(politan) + (hetero)sexual (coined punningly by Mark Simpson (born 1965), British author and journalist).]

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Portmanteau of metropolitan and heterosexual.

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  • My personal favorite definition for metrosexual can be found over at uncyclopedia.org

    April 9, 2007

  • That is brilliant. I love the Uncyclopedia. A friend on Flickr says my new glasses make me look very metrosexual.

    I was feeling quite smug about it until now!

    November 5, 2007

  • Too bad, SoG. Think you'll get another new pair? ;-)

    November 5, 2007

  • He just needs a manhug.

    November 5, 2007

  • Here are the aforementioned new glasses:


    -- from Son of Groucho - (?)

    What do you think?

    February 4, 2008

  • a clotheshorse wrapped around a dandy fused with a narcissist

    (Paul McFedries)

    November 18, 2008