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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

“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

Ares, the god of war, is a biker in a red muscle shirt who comes armed with a huge knife.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 22, 2014

Then ghostly clothes enveloped it—a muscle shirt, camo pants, and army boots.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan