muscled up

comparative more muscled up · superlative most muscled up · alternative muscled-up

1. Having large, well-developed muscles.

   Bob is short, bald, and muscled up, with a thick neck and huge biceps and thighs.

   2008, Terrence Real, The New Rules of Marriage, page 35

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   "It's almost like guys who throw hard have to be born with a certain kind of body. They're tall and slender like Kevin Brown or Randy Johnson. They're strong, don't get me wrong, but they're not all muscled up."

   2001 Sept, “Good Hurlers are Born with Pitching Ability”, in Baseball Digest, 60(9): 74

   "We've got to get the guys muscled up first," explains Byrnes, "or somebody's back will go out when we canter."

   1983 (Jan 17), Julia Vitullo-Martin, "Back in the Saddle Again", New York Magazine 16(3): 51

   He slips the clean shirt over his muscled-up black shoulders. Takes his shoes and socks off and slides his feet into Nike sandals.

   2005, Matt de la Peña, Ball Don't Lie, page 224

   The crowd groaned when the muscled-up, raw-boned Paris boys stopped the Mites once more on fourth down, just inches from the goal.

   2007, Jim Dent, Twelve Mighty Orphans, page 228

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of muscle up