muscle-bound
Britishadjective
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having overdeveloped and inelastic muscles
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lacking flexibility
Example Sentences
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Segar’s misfit cast: As ever, Popeye is a muscle-bound mumbler and Olive Oyl an elastic lass.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
Musk reposted an artist’s depiction in which he, muscle-bound and stripped to the waist, resembles the Hulk carrying an American flag.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2024
Now, MIT engineers have developed a spring-like device that could be used as a basic skeleton-like module for almost any muscle-bound bot.
From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2024
Every few weeks, my mother and I would drive the 20 minutes from our house to the closet Zayre department store, and I'd pick one $5 muscle-bound figure.
From Salon • Nov. 27, 2022
Hazel kept watching Frank out of the corner of her eye, like she was afraid he might turn into a muscle-bound freak.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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