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muscle shirt

American  

noun

  1. Slang. a T-shirt having short sleeves or no sleeves.


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He typed in the keywords for what he wanted — a specific muscle shirt he’d seen around.

From Washington Post Oct. 4, 2021

A man in the front row was wearing a blue muscle shirt and backward cap, his drink pass hanging around his sunburned neck.

From New York Times May 28, 2019

“He’d get in there and shake things up,” Al Decker said recently outside the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum, a muscle shirt revealing a lavish peacock tattoo on his shoulder.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 24, 2017

Until this month, he hid beneath his beard and a faded muscle shirt.

From Washington Times Jun. 28, 2015

He was dressed in a red muscle shirt and black jeans and a black leather duster, with a hunting knife strapped to his thigh.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

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