gym muscles en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From gym + muscles.
Meanings
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(derogatory, plural, plural-only, slang) Large, aesthetic, well-developed muscles, especially ones that are believed to be overly large or impractical.
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: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:[…]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:Physical labor gave her muscles, but not sculpted gym muscles.
2008, Elaine Viets, Murder With Reservations, page 144: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: