outchested

comparative more outchested · superlative most outchested

1. Having a posture that pushes the chest area forward and shoulders back.

   In the Shadi arena, only the bold and brave men step into the bull's-eye to stand, sometimes, bare and outchested.

   2015, Dan Kwajaffa, Tears of the Northeast Child: Coming from Sambisa

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   Some were bold and outchested, with hard voices through their black beards, but most were gangling and soft-speaking.

   1941, Tim Pridgen, Tory Oath, page 80

   The Abominites, highly degenerate forms, we divide into the Cretininae (Clenchpoops, viz. Cadaverium Mordans or the Chewcarcass Addlepate) and Horrosrissimae (Howlmouths, with the classic example of the Outchested Backshouldered Dullard, Idiontus Erectus Gzeemsi).

   2016, Stanislaw Lem, The Star Diaries