To be macho is to possess machismo or exaggerated masculinity.

Macho may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • Macho (band), a short-lived Italian-American disco/R&B group in the late 1970s
  • Macho (album), a 1975 album by Hungarian guitarist Gábor Szabó
  • "El Macho", a song on the Sailing to Philadelphia album by Mark Knopfler
  • Macho, original title of the 1975 novel Cry Macho
  • El Macho, a 1977 Italian-Argentine Spaghetti Western film
  • Macho (film), a 2016 Mexican film
  • the title character of the 1970 Civil War film Macho Callahan, played by David Janssen
  • Macho Grubba, villain of Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door
  • Super Macho Man, re-accuring character from Punch-Out!! series
  • Eduardo "El Macho" Perez, the main antagonist of the 2013 animated feature film Despicable Me 2

People

  • Macho (surname), a list of people
  • Macho (nickname), a list of people nicknamed "Macho" or "El Macho"

Science and technology

  • Massive compact halo object (MACHO), a hypothesised astronomical body to explain the dark matter in galaxy halos
  • MACHO Project, an observational search for MACHOs
  • Mach-O, binary file format on Mach-kernel systems
  • Marine Cable Hosted Observatory (MACHO), an underwater seismic monitoring network

Other uses

  • Toyota Land Cruiser (J40) (Toyota Macho in Venezuela), a four-wheel-drive vehicle
  • Bursera glabrifolia, a Mexican tree called macho in woodcarving
  • "El macho", a pair of percussive claves' striking clave
  • , a river in Vázquez de Coronado, Costa Rica

See also

  • Machos (disambiguation)
  • Mach O (disambiguation)
  • Macho man (disambiguation)