Very manly

The answer

MACHO

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MACHO answer page.

Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2014. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for MACHO

Every other clue in this collection answered by MACHO, most used first.

• Like a he-man - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ Man" (Village People hit) - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Virile - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Swaggering - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Hairy-chested - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Hardly wimpy - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• Manly - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Ultra-manly - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Chest-thumping - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Like he-men - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
• Two-fisted - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Aggressively virile - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Like Rambo - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• Studly - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• Hypermasculine - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Very virile - used 6 times, most recently in 2016

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Very pale - ASHEN, used 69 times
• Very small - TEENY, used 68 times
• Very angry - IRATE, used 64 times
• Make very happy - ELATE, used 56 times
• Very, in music - ASSAI, used 52 times
• Very cold - GELID, used 41 times

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