muscleman
Americannoun
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musclemen
plural
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Informal. a man with a muscular or brawny physique, especially a bodybuilder.
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Slang. a bodyguard, especially one hired to intimidate others, often by strong-arm methods.
noun
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a man with highly developed muscles
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a henchman employed by a gangster to intimidate or use violence upon victims
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Origin of muscleman
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Except instead of being an imaginary muscleman like Husted, Trump has cast Paxton in the role of ugly loser.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
He crooks his arms in a kind of a hybrid muscleman flex/double thumbs-up/Fonzie “eyyyyy” pose.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 15, 2020
But more to the point, I long to see my life reflected on the screen, and last I checked there was no flying saucer or caped muscleman flying outside my window.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2018
By now, most of American knows that movie muscleman Arnold Schwarzenegger will take President-elect Donald Trump’s place as host of NBC’s “The Apprentice,” which will be renamed “The Celebrity Apprentice” and debuts Jan. 2.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 20, 2016
There were other applicants, including Mike Souchak, a muscleman himself, and Ken Venturi, the betting favorite to succeed Ben Hogan atop golf.
From Golf Digest ● Sep. 25, 2016
He imagined himself as a steroid-enhanced bare-chested wrestler, able to beat actual musclemen at arm-wrestling.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026
Inside the Sistine Chapel, where in the past I have been shoved and elbowed by the crowds, about 30 spectators were awing over Perugino’s frescoes and craning to see Michelangelo’s burly musclemen on the ceiling.
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2021
I can relate to these crypt-dwellers somehow, chatty and powerless in a world of snarling musclemen.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 29, 2019
It is hard to argue against that, but if you take the movie for what it is – a modernized version of mid-century musclemen silliness – the exercise makes a little more sense.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 25, 2016
When the Spanish got to Mexico they didn't understand what they saw, being musclemen rather than scholars.
From Adaptation by John Schoenherr
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