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outchested en · ADJ

Etymology

From out- + chest + -ed.

Meanings

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