Arnold Schwarzenegger

noun

A muscleman.

Meanings

nounArnold Schwarzenegger (plural Arnold Schwarzeneggers)

plural Arnold Schwarzeneggers

  1. A muscleman.

    […] with the sight of young Chinese flexing their musculatures like so many apprentice Arnold Schwarzeneggers.

    1989, Orville Schell, Discos and Democracy: China in the Throes of Reform, Doubleday, page 106
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    Now, what- explain what's different, though, between what you do, the fact that you do your own, obviously, and, say, what an Arnold Schwarzenegger does.

    1996 August 15, ABC_GMA

    The precision technology of body-sculpting, once the secret of the Arnold Schwarzeneggers and Rachel McLishes of the professional bodybuilding word, has now become available to anyone who can afford the price of membership in a gym.

    a. 2001, Susan Bordo, “Material Girl”: The Effacements of Postmodern Culture in 2001, Jessica R. Johnston, The American Body in Context: An Anthology, Scholarly Resources, page 123

    He was tall, with an Arnold Schwarzenegger chest, and fit with the flower shop as well as the proverbial bull in the china closet.

    2009, Sheila Roberts, Love in bloom

Origin

After the actor and bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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