musclebound

[ muhs-uhl-bound ]

adjective
  1. having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.

  2. rigid; inflexible: musclebound rules.

Origin of musclebound

1
First recorded in 1875–80; muscle + -bound1

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How to use musclebound in a sentence

  • For athletics they had their turn vereins in which men went through hard, laborious exercises which made them muscle-bound.

  • A heavy-set man, with the muscle-bound shoulders of an ape, was lighting a fire in the stove.

    The Sheriff's Son | William MacLeod Raine
  • I made a clumsy climb of about five hundred feet, my muscles being "muscle-bound" all the time with rigidity from electricity.

    Wild Life on the Rockies | Enos A. Mills
  • Most writers at the start are mentally muscle-bound, and poorly coordinated.

    The Armed Forces Officer | U. S. Department of Defense

British Dictionary definitions for muscle-bound

muscle-bound

adjective
  1. having overdeveloped and inelastic muscles

  2. lacking flexibility

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