bone smashing
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[edit]- (incel slang) The act or practice of hitting one's face against a blunt object (e.g. a hammer or bottle) with the goal of improving one's facial appearance.
- 2024 February 15, Simon Usborne, “From bone smashing to chin extensions: how ‘looksmaxxing’ is reshaping young men’s faces”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Shami says older adults don’t get looksmaxxing. There has been much hand-wringing in the media over “bone smashing”, for example, an extreme technique that involves taking a hammer to your face to promote more “manly” regrowth when the bones repair, but little evidence that anyone is actually doing it.