delt

D2E1L1T1
/dɛlt/

noun

The deltoid muscle.

UncommonScrabble 5

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delt1

noundelt (plural delts)

plural delts

  1. slangbodybuildingThe deltoid muscle.

    […]she had this tat of a devil face sticking out a Gene Simmons-class tongue on her left delt.

    2005, F. Paul Wilson, Midnight Mass, page 67

delt2

verb
  1. archaicArchaic spelling of dealt.

    PHILOMATHES. Indeede there is cause inough, but rather to leaue him at all, then to runne more plainlie to him, if they were wise he delt with.

    1597, King James I, Daemonologie.
    1 more example

    Here now they cry out, that the Commaunders of our Fleete haue delt iniuriously with them, they exclaime that the leagues are broken, that their old priuiledges in England are violated, which they chalenge to belong to their Cities, and ought to be kept and mainteined.

    1589, anonymous author, A Declaration of the Causes, which mooved the chiefe Commanders of the Nauie of her most excellent Maiestie the Queene of England, in their voyage and expedition for Portingal, to take and arrest in the mouth of the Riuer of Lisbone, certaine Shippes of corne and other prouisions of warre bound for the said Citie

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APA

delt. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/delt

MLA

“delt.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/delt. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “delt,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/delt.

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