noun Informal.
- body: You’ve got to have a great bod to look good in that bathing suit.
- Chiefly British. person: We need a few more bods to help with the extra work.
- biochemical oxygen demand.
noun informal
- a fellow; chaphe’s a queer bod
- another word for body (def. 1)
abbreviation for
- biochemical oxygen demand
1788, “a person,” short for body. Meaning “physical body” is recorded from 1933.