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- adjective rare Reminiscent of Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-), muscular actor cast in many violent roles, or the action films in which he starred.
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Examples
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Women generally prefer men who play sports or take part in some sort of real action like mountain biking or surfing or climbing rather than hours spent in a hot stuffy gym building up Schwarzeneggeresque muscles which quite frankly look better suited to gay men.
James Bond and what women really want Chickenlady 2007
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Women generally prefer men who play sports or take part in some sort of real action like mountain biking or surfing or climbing rather than hours spent in a hot stuffy gym building up Schwarzeneggeresque muscles which quite frankly look better suited to gay men.
Archive 2007-01-01 Chickenlady 2007
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Three years ago the president, in a Schwarzeneggeresque performance, complete with a crotch-hugging Top Gun costume, and a really boffo entrance on a bunting-draped carrier flight deck proclaimed to the world - "Mission Accomplished".
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You always think you are going to charge forward with Schwarzeneggeresque invulnerability, pumping globules of pigment at seven rounds a second from your Inferno Mark II paintball machine gun, and watching your foes scatter like pigeons.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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