gym muscles

noun

Large, aesthetic, well-developed muscles, especially ones that are believed to be overly large or impractical.

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Meanings

noungym muscles (plurale tantum)
  1. derogatorypluralplural onlyslangLarge, aesthetic, well-developed muscles, especially ones that are believed to be overly large or impractical.

    Physical labor gave her muscles, but not sculpted gym muscles.

    2008, Elaine Viets, Murder With Reservations, page 144
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    He was six feet tall and strong, but without the gnarled gym muscles Helen hated.

    2003, Elaine Viets, Shop till you Drop: a Dead-end Job Mystery, page 84

    Sienna reached out, grabbed Jason's hand, and ran his fingers across her taut abs. Jason tried to look unimpressed. "Gym muscles," Tyler scoffed.

    2006, Alex Duval, Vampire Beach: Initiation, page 94

    Sure, the sick Italian fuck had muscles on top of the muscles all over his chunky irritating self. But they were gym muscles. Bench-press-with- your-iPod muscles.

    2009, Grant McCrea, Drawing Dead, page 67

    He didn't have puffed-up gym muscles. His strapping body had a rippling stomach, ridged like a tray of baklava.

    2009, Mehmet Murat Somer, The Kiss Murder, page 138

    […]and he realized that, unlike a lot of big guys with gym muscles, the guard could take a punch.

    2010, Alexander Irvine, Iron Man 2: The Junior Novel, page 109

Origin

From gym + muscles.

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