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hypermuscular en · ADJ

Etymology

From hyper- + muscular.

Meanings

1. Extremely muscular.
   • Its fusion of mundane domestic tragedy, dark-night-of-the-soul emoting and hypermuscular camerawork suggests Robert Altman’s “Short Cuts” on jet-propelled roller skates. 2008 January 4, Matt Zoller Seitz, “One Filmmaker’s Vivid Tales of Fathers and Other Strangers”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022:
   • Although body sizes in #bodypositive posts were more likely to be thin or small fat, posts also included fat and superfat bodies, whereas #fitspiration depicted predominately thin/fit or hypermuscular bodies. 2019 May 10, Rayanne Connie Streeter, “Are All Bodies Good Bodies?: Redefining Femininity Through Discourses of Health, Beauty, and Gender in Body Positivity”, in Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, archived from the original on 12 Jul 2024, page 173:

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