chin-up
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of chin-up
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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Who needs umbrellas when you’ve got a tanning bed, a chin-up bar, beef-tallow stockpiles, and a gallon of only-sometimes-poisonous raw milk?
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
"We also had a chin-up bar and would try to do maximum chin-ups. We were so lucky to have training buddies to push each other along."
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2023
Holding a bow steady at full draw is like hanging in a chin-up: It’s not something you can do for very long, over and over again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2022
The second silver-medalist—the surgeon—adopted a chin-up, impassive look, the same stoic face he wore on the golf course.
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 1, 2019
Although she was a former softball player who had wrestled the controls in airplanes in the worst weather conditions, she could not pull her body weight up to the chin-up bar.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
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