X-appeal:

1. An abbreviated form of sex-appeal . See sex-appeal for synonyms.

2. Camp word for masculine sex-appeal .
SYNONYMS: beefcake ; masculine-quotient ; MQ .

QUOTES:

(1) Reporter Jake Callahan (Lynne Overman) about sleazy lawyer Billy Flynn (Adolphe Menjou) in Roxie Hart (1942): ' Sex appeal rises from him like a cloud of steam .'

(2) Dorinda Durston (Holly Hunter) speaking about Ted Baker (Brad Johnson) in Always (1989): ' He's too beautiful. He's too much twisted steel and sex-appeal . I can't be with a guy who looks like I won him in a raffle .'

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