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  • Everybody's fired for not telling me about the awesome casting in the lightning thief! ladyjax. kadymae has thoughtfully provided footage of the bro-love manhug jeremy renner and his co-star performed today. * sings*: this is not man-crush! ps: out of nutella.

    February 2nd, 2010 ladyjax 2010

  • Thankfully, this was in the pre-manhug days because Morse looked like he could unintentionally squeeze the life out of me.

    Starbulletin Headlines 2009

  • Thankfully, this was in the pre-manhug days because Morse looked like he could unintentionally squeeze the life out of me.

    Starbulletin Headlines 2009

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  • Well, mollusque, what does this mean?

    November 5, 2007

  • A manhug is a non-sexual hug between men for greeting, celebration or reassurance. The word's been around for a couple of years, but I don't know of any dictionaries that have picked it up. See The Professional, The Idiot, and The Tailback and Manhug!

    November 5, 2007

  • See also: manlaughter. :-)

    November 5, 2007

  • Thanks, guys!

    November 5, 2007

  • There's also mancrush, defined on Urban Dictionary and quantified on Mancrush, which ranks men.

    November 5, 2007