He was 'V' shaped?

I would write it 'V'.

It's like when someone's mouth forms an 'O' while shocked at something.

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Should be "V" and not "vee" since the shape of the letter is what they mean, not the letter itself. They are talking about a shape that resembles the letter, not the letter itself, you know what I mean. But if somebody just drops a phrase like "I like his V" it won't make much sense because it's not immediately obvious what that V stands for. It can be anything, maybe his belt-buckle or something! Or the logo on his shirt, or his hairdo, or maybe it stands for some completely new slang word. So it's best to first establish what the V means, or at least make it known in the conversation when it's mentioned.

Haha, I've only ever heard that shape as "Dorito" V is much better.

I used "torso like an inverted triangle".

Hmm, being in the mm psych thriller/romance genre, V to me usually suggests the arrow mark between hips that leads down to what's between the thighs on the guy, lol. But it just shows how different readers process the details. I like pen's example of just expanding the detail a little more:

She liked his V: all slender thighs, broad shoulders, just a finer slipstream of body to run against the wind with..

Just as an aside, Terry Pratchett famously has in several of his novels a naïve young bumpkin of a policeman who is tall and very well-built, named Carrot, after his physical shape, wide at the shoulders and tapering downward.

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Fortz said:

She liked his 'V'.

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Without some explanatory description or other context, I would have no idea what that referred to.

Hm, that reads awkward as an idea, but maybe that's just me.

Fallen's example will be necessary, methinks, if you want to use it.

"Shaped like a V" would work fine for me as a reader, assuming you provide a little more detail, perhaps.

This, from someone shaped more like an O.

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Fallen said:

Hmm, being in the mm psych thriller/romance genre, V to me usually suggests the arrow mark between hips that leads down to what's between the thighs on the guy, lol.

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Yep. Fellow romance writer here, and that's where my mind went as well.

I would do V because he's shaped like the letter V.