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English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]muscled up (comparative more muscled up, superlative most muscled up)
- Having large, well-developed muscles.
- 2001 Sept, “Good Hurlers are Born with Pitching Ability”, in Baseball Digest, 60(9): 74:
- "It's almost like guys who throw hard have to be born with a certain kind of body. They're tall and slender like Kevin Brown or Randy Johnson. They're strong, don't get me wrong, but they're not all muscled up."
- 1983 (Jan 17), Julia Vitullo-Martin, "Back in the Saddle Again", New York Magazine 16(3): 51
- "We've got to get the guys muscled up first," explains Byrnes, "or somebody's back will go out when we canter."
- 2005, Matt de la Peña, Ball Don't Lie, page 224:
- He slips the clean shirt over his muscled-up black shoulders. Takes his shoes and socks off and slides his feet into Nike sandals.
- 2007, Jim Dent, Twelve Mighty Orphans, page 228:
- The crowd groaned when the muscled-up, raw-boned Paris boys stopped the Mites once more on fourth down, just inches from the goal.
- 2008, Terrence Real, The New Rules of Marriage, page 35:
- Bob is short, bald, and muscled up, with a thick neck and huge biceps and thighs.
Alternative forms
[edit]Verb
[edit]- simple past and past participle of muscle up