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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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