bootylicious

What, one might ask, does it mean to be bootylicious?

London's long-running production of Chicago has a bootylicious new star.

The bootylicious queen has declared that working on Broadway would be her ideal job.

Eventually it crams in so much plot information that there's an unwieldy surfeit of narrative treasure: it's bootylicious.

The promotional postcards for the teen nights advertise activities like "blackout party" and "bootylicious dance contest."

None other than another famous bootylicious babe--Beyonce.

Roughly interpreted, the bootylicious ethos suggests - to paraphrase a cheesy tune from another era - that "everything is beautiful in its own way."

Lessard said Beyonce would be "in the nature history books forever" and that the fly now bearing her name is "pretty bootylicious" with its golden backside.

Snoop Dogg used and originated the word "bootylicious" in this song almost a decade before the 2001 single of that name by Destiny's Child.

In that case, Stanger suggests the bootylicious 42-year-old forgo the Afflecks and go "off carpet" to land a successful, behind-the-scenes guy.

A newly discovered horse fly in Australia was so "bootylicious" with its golden-haired bum, there was only one name worthy of its beauty: Beyonce.

Looking wonderfully bootylicious in person, unlike in her publicity stills, Ms. Furtado settled in as conversation turned to her Tuesday appearance on the "Late Show."

On the ground floor is the swanky and popular Pravda nightclub (open Wednesday to Saturday), where top DJs spin everything from bootylicious R&B to house anthems.

I just came across this bootylicious flick of Serena in one of them "hot bodysuit[s]" Sandy and Cheryl rap about in their 1988 classic "Push It."

Her comedy is mainly based on her life experiences, including being an Asian woman in the United States, the horrors of the internet, crazy dating stories and her desire to be "bootylicious".

The first song on the B-side, "Gotta Let it Go," however, rocks with more of a bootylicious swagger, and the boy-girl interplay is evocative of Cupid Car Club.

While reviewing B'Day, Chuck Arnold of People magazine wrote, "'ladies' anthem 'Freakum Dress' finds Beyoncé working all her bootylicious powers over some slamming funk".

Rob Markman of MTV News wrote that the choreography is very different from the Knowles' standard dance routines, which feature high-powered steps, swaying hips and "her patented bootylicious shake".

Sure her incredible, showpony body was very much on display, as ever, in a golden glitter jacket and pants with little else; her bootylicious dancing was as impressive as the rest of the show.

The critic also compared Milian to Beyoncé Knowles, "while Beyonce is shaking her bootylicious body like crazy on 'Crazy In Love', Milian is simply enjoying becoming a young star."

It doesn't matter if you're responsible for at least three of the 10 most intoxicatingly danceable singles of the last decade, or that you've convinced the globe that "bootylicious" is an actual word that can be said without shame.

However, in this song it means "bad" or "weak"; that is far different from the meaning Beyoncé Knowles gave it in her group's hit, which the Oxford English Dictionary Online used when it added "bootylicious" in 2004.

Although the term "bootylicious" was first coined by rapper Snoop Dogg in 1992, the popularity of this track caused the word to be added to the Oxford English Dictionary (defined as "(of a woman) sexually attractive") in 2004.

Despite the title, "Bootylicious" was more of a go-away than a come-on: "I don't think you're ready for this jelly/ My body's too bootylicious for you, babe," they sang, and the chorus left no room for argument.

According to Chuck Arnold of People, "the frenetic dance track (its title refers to a bootylicious posterior) taps into the favela funk sound popular in Rio de Janeiro and features production by Disco D, who keeps things popping with breakneck beats."