put hair on someone's chest

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put hair on someone's chest (third-person singular simple present puts hair on someone's chest, present participle putting hair on someone's chest, simple past and past participle put hair on someone's chest)

  1. (idiomatic) To make a person (especially a male) stronger or more masculine or mature.
    • 1998 February 17, Tom Becker, “School Speaker Talks About Life as Addict”, in Los Angeles Times, retrieved 10 Oct. 2010, page B2:
      When Lonnie Bushey was 6 he started drinking with his father who told him it would put hair on his chest and make him a man.
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