Definitions

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  • noun nonstandard A supposed singular of triceps.

Etymologies

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Back-formation from triceps. In Latin, triceps is both singular and plural.

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Examples

  • Our 85 minutes are spent working arms with three-pound free weights, push-ups, planks, and tricep dips.

    Meg Hemphill: A Review of 3 Top Barre Workouts Meg Hemphill 2011

  • The format of the routine is similar to Bar Method insofar as each weight interval is followed by stretching, and you begin with arm weights, but you use eight-pound weights instead of three, then push-ups, tricep dips, legs, seat, and then abs, but Physique 57 incorporates a greater variety of movements, and the use of a playground ball.

    Meg Hemphill: A Review of 3 Top Barre Workouts Meg Hemphill 2011

  • The format of the routine is similar to Bar Method insofar as each weight interval is followed by stretching, and you begin with arm weights, but you use eight-pound weights instead of three, then push-ups, tricep dips, legs, seat, and then abs, but Physique 57 incorporates a greater variety of movements, and the use of a playground ball.

    Meg Hemphill: A Review of 3 Top Barre Workouts Meg Hemphill 2011

  • Good on everyone, but it's annoyingly crowded in my Zumba class and painful to "work in" at the tricep pull-down machine.

    Meg Hemphill: A Review of 3 Top Barre Workouts Meg Hemphill 2011

  • Good on everyone, but it's annoyingly crowded in my Zumba class and painful to "work in" at the tricep pull-down machine.

    Meg Hemphill: A Review of 3 Top Barre Workouts Meg Hemphill 2011

  • If you are outside, you can do walking lunges, squats, incline push-ups and tricep dips using a park bench, and heel raises off of a curb.

    LIVESTRONG.COM: 5 Ways to Walk Off Weight LIVESTRONG.COM 2010

  • He mixes in bicep and tricep exercises throughout the week.

    Work Out Hard Monday to Play Harder Saturday Jen Murphy 2011

  • For me the key is a good mixture of aerobic exercise, varied weights and “monkey stuff”; pull ups, tricep dips etc.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Burger lite. 2010

  • Megias, who has type 1 diabetes, has to monitor his blood glucose level constantly with a radio-frequency implant on his tricep and an electronic device he keeps in a jersey pocket.

    Mondory wins at Bessèges; third for Team Type 1 2011

  • Our 85 minutes are spent working arms with three-pound free weights, push-ups, planks, and tricep dips.

    Meg Hemphill: A Review of 3 Top Barre Workouts Meg Hemphill 2011

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