Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having inelastic, overdeveloped muscles, usually as the result of excessive exercise.
- adjective Hindered by or as if by overdeveloped muscles.
- adjective Characterized by inflexibility; rigid.
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- adjective Having pronounced
muscle development throughweightlifting ,bodybuilding , or other physicalexercise . - adjective pejorative Having
excessive muscle. - adjective figuratively
Ungainly as a result of muscle over-development.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In those days, few football players lifted weights because it was considered vain and because they feared becoming "musclebound" and losing their speed.
Stan Jones, 78, Hall of Fame lineman with the Chicago Bears; all-American at U-Md., dies 2010
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I'm kind of musclebound, I guess, but I don't let that interfere with my quickness any.
Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William Booth Tarkington 1907
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Coverdale, Matthew and the Bishops' all end with the slightly bathetic "henceforth", but Tyndale has the simpler "any more" albeit following the musclebound "neither shall they teach to war", a phrase turned around by everybody else into variants of "neither shall they learn to fight".
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Last Son's 65 minutes are packed with nostalgia for the musclebound superhero, the two high school kids who created him, and the way he inspired millions of Americans.
George Heymont: Superman, We Hardly Knew Ye! (VIDEOS) George Heymont 2010
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So I could exorcise my feelings of aggression and powerlessness by watching wrestling, where all disputes were ultimately settled through creative, highly entertaining faux violence played out by men as confident, mighty and musclebound as I wish I was.
Jonathan Kim: Why I Still Love Pro Wrestling and Will Miss "Macho Man" Randy Savage Jonathan Kim 2011
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One is a standing military with plenty of airships, mecha, and musclebound space marines led by Miles Quaritch, played by Stephen Lang, who, it must be said, pulls of the one-dimensional Hollywood stereotype of the crazy, bigoted, violent marine probably better than anyone else could.
Movie Review: Avatar 2009
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Last Son's 65 minutes are packed with nostalgia for the musclebound superhero, the two high school kids who created him, and the way he inspired millions of Americans.
George Heymont: Superman, We Hardly Knew Ye! (VIDEOS) George Heymont 2010
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Until then, musclebound bodies were restricted to wrestlers and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The Guyliner: Do I Really Need a Six-Pack to Make an Impact? Why I'm Sticking With the Body I've Got The Guyliner 2011
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One is a standing military with plenty of airships, mecha, and musclebound space marines led by Miles Quaritch, played by Stephen Lang, who, it must be said, pulls of the one-dimensional Hollywood stereotype of the crazy, bigoted, violent marine probably better than anyone else could.
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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Until then, musclebound bodies were restricted to wrestlers and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The Guyliner: Do I Really Need a Six-Pack to Make an Impact? Why I'm Sticking With the Body I've Got The Guyliner 2011
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