dead lift
noun
a direct lifting without any mechanical assistance.
dead lifts
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pluralof dead lift.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Where he splits from the pack, offensive line coach Bob Bostad said, is by not allowing himself to be wooed by freak athletes with crazy vertical leaps and absurdly heavy dead lifts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
Then the two of them crushed 300-pound dead lifts at the gym.
From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2025
Ward notes that they have “tremendous carry-over to other exercises,” like dead lifts in the gym or heaving a Costco-size bag of dog food into your shopping cart.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2021
“Now, she dead lifts as much as the male athletes in our gym, and, I assure you, she has no trouble talking,” she said.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 18, 2020
That complex web remains intact, the dead lifts unavailing hands, justice is laggard, while the name of Langdon shrinks from pending odium.
From Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 by Carson Jay Lee
