body heat

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body heat (uncountable)

  1. Heat produced from within the body of a (warmblooded) animal as opposed to absorbed from the environment.
    • 1981 December 12, Melissa Wills, “Moving Metal”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 10:
      The huge open gymnasium was cold. Only after the [weightlifting] competition was in progress did the air warm up from body heat.

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