manscape

noun

1. A view of a group of people.

   “I soon turned to contemplate the more animated manscape at my feet. Seeing a crowd of beggars standing together in dejected attitudes, I cast a handful of cash into the air, in such wise that the coins would fall plump among them, and then dropped behind the parapet of the pagoda.”

   “The crowd melts, but melts only to flow again next morning into the same gigantic mould of passion. The men are different, but the manscape is the same.”

   “It is to be hoped that their [the Meridian Gay Theatre's] next effort — the New York premiere of Something More, a "manscape" of gay life in the past 10 years — will match the previous success of Stray Dog Story and Street Theater.”

2. A landscape that has been shaped by the human race.

   “At last the manscape gags itself, and a queer, worn, torn, cracked, corncrake voice begins to vibrate in the vast bowl.”

   “And the manscape is our realm, our spatial destiny where we must act and respond, where for our lifetime we must be who we will be.”

   “In 114 pages, he deals with slavery and its effect on the manscape of what he describes as "the most English of the West Indian islands, but at the same time the nearest as the slaves fly, to Africa."”

   “Nearly everywhere is a Manscape now, and we need not mourn the fact. There is still plenty which is beautiful and a solace[…]”

   “As cities grow they try to claim landscapes for themselves, changing them gradually into "manscapes".”

3. An image, normally artistic, of the male form.

   “Pierrot is lying in an open loll on bedface, twitching me with bigtoe ... immense beckoner as my captive eye swallows it whole and am unawares into his manscape still at ten feet distance yet touched in a way that nobody has even touched me in my own community d'Angluche.”

   “no contemplative staring at the marble-statue manscape I'd downloaded from one of the porno websites I'd found.”

verb

1. (rare)To impose a shape on the landscape to suit humans.

   “On the valley floor, wide enough to admit the more pleasing features of manscaping, the Little River meanders.”

2. (neologism)To trim or shave a male's hair, typically other than the hair atop and behind his head. The term applies most frequently to facial hair, including that of the eyebrows, ears, and nostrils; somewhat frequently to shoulders and back; less frequently to buttocks and pubes; infrequently to arms and legs.

   “Is it that hard to manscape? You know, get an electric razor, trim up your shrubbery, blow out your front yard a bit?”

   “College News presents a working guide of the dos and don’ts of manscaping, taken from suggestions of college students themselves: Dos: […] / – Facial shaving/beard trimming / – […] – Controlling pubic hair / […] Embrace leg hair / Donts: – Excessive chest hair / – Long nose hairs / – Ear hair / – Adventurous shoulder and back hair / – Unibrows / – Wild beards […] / Follow these directions, and you’ll be making sure that the man in your life is properly manscaped.”

   “Manscaping, otherwise known as the art of shaving, waxing and cleaning up the superfluous fur on a man […], is a must in this day and age.”

   ““I'm Jamie,” he said, reaching out to shake Ophelia's hand. “Nice to meet you. And I don't manscape. But Gabriel does.””

   “Many tools can be used to “manscape” including a razor and shaving cream, cordless body trimmers, and even scissors.”