heartthrob

English

Alternative forms

• heart-throb

Etymology

From heart + throb

Pronunciation

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Noun

heartthrob (plural heartthrobs)

1. A heartbeat
2. The object of one’s desires or infatuation; a sweetheart
3. A usually handsome celebrity or famous person
   • 2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, The Onion AV Club:

     And really, Michael Jackson is a more fitting aspiration for the similarly sexless would-be-former teen heartthrob, who’s compared himself to the late King Of Pop (perhaps a bit prematurely) on several occasions and sings in a Jackson-like croon over a sample of “We’ve Got A Good Thing Going” on Believe’s “Die In Your Arms.”

Translations

heartbeat

• Dutch: hartslag (nl)
• Finnish: sydämentykytys (fi)
• German: Herzschlag (de) m
• Portuguese: batimento cardíaco (pt)

• Russian: сердцебиение (ru) (s'erdcebijénije) n