What’s a “dad bod” anyway? Nobody still seems to know anymore…

It’s been nearly a decade since a Clemson University student popularized the term “dad bod.” In a viral article, Mackenzie Pearson defined the opaque body type as a “nice balance between a beer gut and working out.”

Titled “Why Girls Love The Dad Bod,” the piece is uniformly positive. “The dad bod says, ‘I go to the gym occasionally, but I also drink heavily on the weekends and enjoy eating eight slices of pizza at a time,’” Pearson writes.

While the “dad bod” remains a cultural phenomenon, the definition has become increasingly blurry. The body type has been applied to everyone from Jon Hamm to Jason Mamoa to Jason Kelce.

How about we take this to the next level?

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