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delts

American  
[delts] / dɛlts /

plural noun

  1. Informal. deltoid muscles.


Etymology

Origin of delts

First recorded in 1965–70; by shortening


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Rare is the queen who spends five days a week at the gym inflating masculine pecs, amplifying delts and defining abs — or, worse, ignoring altogether questions of style, anatomical or applied.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2023

But, even with his regulation uniform on, Mikulak was still able to hoist and flip himself around for the TV cameras with his delts, biceps, and bulging veins on display.

From Slate ● Feb. 20, 2018

But the lats, delts, quads, and inguinal creases that have been forged in the effort!

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2015

Pitt and Bana carry the film on their dishy delts.

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