The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word MACHO , but the solution may also be BOASTING which is one of the most recent solution (2017 in New York Times).
Chest-thumping crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| MACHO | 88 % | 5 |
| BOASTING | 13 % | 8 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Chest-thumping
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- headbanging
- chest voice
- thudding
- pummelling
- hand clapping
- thumps
- pummeling
- thump
- chested
- clapping
- heart beat
- hammering
Crossword Answer definitions
MACHO noun- A macho person; a person who tends to display masculine characteristics, such as domineering, fierceness, and bravado.
- The striped mullet of California (Mugil cephalus, syn. Mugil mexicanus).
- A male llama.
- Tending to display masculine characteristics, such as domineering, fierceness, bravado, etc., in ways that are showily and histrionically tough
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
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More clues leading to the result MACHO
- Boxer Hector "__" Camacho
- Aggressively virile
- Able to tear a phonebook in half with one's bare hands, perhaps
- Studly
- Virile
- Virile, plus
- Perhaps too virile
- Hardly wimpy
- Virile, and then some
- Swaggering, maybe