Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A man who is physically powerful, especially one with well-developed muscles.
- noun A strong man hired as a bodyguard or thug.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a bully employed by a gangster.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
bodyguard . - noun bodybuilding A
man withdeveloped muscles .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a bully employed as a thug or bodyguard
- noun someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature
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Examples
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This muscleman is flanked by two tiny bouncy Chihuahuas.
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This muscleman is flanked by two tiny bouncy Chihuahuas.
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This muscleman is flanked by two tiny bouncy Chihuahuas.
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The peoples have defied their prison guards and raised their voices loudly against the capitulation projects and accelerating steps towards turning Israel into a friend who can be counted on to play the role of the policeman or the "muscleman" against the new enemy Iran.
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He was doing a muscleman pose with his shirt off, which was hilarious, because Daddy was almost as skinny as Kit.
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He was doing a muscleman pose with his shirt off, which was hilarious, because Daddy was almost as skinny as Kit.
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But neither Francis Bacon nor Lucian Freud nor Damien Hirst has shaped modern art as Hamilton did when he put a lolly with the word POP on it in the hand of a muscleman in his 1956 collage, Just What is it that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?
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He was doing a muscleman pose with his shirt off, which was hilarious, because Daddy was almost as skinny as Kit.
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He's not tall, but he's stocky, though you wouldn't call him a muscleman.
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He was doing a muscleman pose with his shirt off, which was hilarious, because Daddy was almost as skinny as Kit.
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