cosmetic surgery

cosmetic surgery (countable and uncountable, plural cosmetic surgeries)

1. Elective surgical procedures performed to enhance or alter a person's physical appearance for aesthetic purposes.

   Synonyms: aesthetic surgery, vanity surgery; work (informal, elliptical); plastic surgery (narrow sense)

   Hypernyms: plastic surgery (broad sense) < surgery

   Hyponyms: face lift, face job, nose job, lip job, eye job, boob job, butt job, Brazilian butt lift

   The face lift is a classic example of cosmetic surgery.

   • 2022 December 14, Nadia Khomami, quoting Iman, “‘He’s not my “late” husband’: Iman speaks of grief over death of David Bowie”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 October 2026:

     I come from Africa – we celebrate getting older. A friend was telling me there’s been a rise in cosmetic surgery, all because [people]^[sic] have been looking at themselves in Zoom meetings.