hugh hefner

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Definition of hugh hefner in English English dictionary

born April 9, 1926, Chicago, Ill., U.S. U.S. magazine publisher and entrepreneur. After serving in the U.S. Army (1944-46), he attended the University of Illinois, graduating in 1949. In 1953 he founded Playboy, a magazine for men. Playboy's intellectually respectable articles and its forthright philosophy of hedonism made it a seminal influence on the "sexual revolution" of the 1960s. Hefner later expanded his enterprise into nightclubs and other entertainment media

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Hugh Marston Hefner

born April 9, 1926, Chicago, Ill., U.S. U.S. magazine publisher and entrepreneur. After serving in the U.S. Army (1944-46), he attended the University of Illinois, graduating in 1949. In 1953 he founded Playboy, a magazine for men. Playboy's intellectually respectable articles and its forthright philosophy of hedonism made it a seminal influence on the "sexual revolution" of the 1960s. Hefner later expanded his enterprise into nightclubs and other entertainment media

Hyphenation

Hugh hefner

Turkish pronunciation

hyu hefnır

Pronunciation

/ˈhyo͞o ˈhefnər/ /ˈhjuː ˈhɛfnɜr/