looksmatch

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

looks +‎ match

Noun[edit]

looksmatch (plural looksmatches)

  1. (incel slang) A person of equal ranking to another on a scale of physical attractiveness.
    • 2019, “Dr. Castle”, in The Blackpill Theory: Why Incels Are Right & You Are Wrong, page 31:
      Overwhelmingly incels (and men in general) want to date someone they consider to be their "looksmatch."
    • 2019 June 8, Alice Hines, “Men are having their faces rebuilt – and it’s all to get a date”, in The Times, UK:
      Body dysmorphia “was invented by old psychologists who grew up in the Fifties and had NO problem to find a looksmatch [someone who is your counterpart in terms of appearance] or even better-looking wife”, noted another.
    • 2020, anonymous, quoted in Annie Jones, "Incels and the Manosphere: Tracking Men's Movements Online", thesis submitted to the University of Central Florida, page 57:
      High iq. If all those things happened giving us an equal playing field it would be like before feminism, and foids [women] wouldn't be as picky with men around their looksmatch, probably even willing to settle for less than their looksmatch since usually men make more money.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:looksmatch.
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