Definition of Muscleman

1. Noun. A bully employed as a thug or bodyguard. "The drug lord had his muscleman to protect him"

Exact synonyms: Muscle
Generic synonyms: Bully, Hooligan, Roughneck, Rowdy, Ruffian, Tough, Yob, Yobbo, Yobo

2. Noun. Someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature.

Definition of Muscleman

1. Noun. A bodyguard. ¹

2. Noun. (bodybuilding) A man with developed muscles. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Muscleman

1. [n MUSCLEMEN]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Muscleman

musclebikes
muscleblind
muscleblinds
musclebound
musclebrain
musclebrains
musclebuilder
musclebuilding
muscled
muscled-up
muscled up
muscledom
musclehead
muscleheads
muscleless
muscleman (current term)
musclemen
muscles
muscles of abdomen
muscles of auditory ossicles
muscles of coccyx
muscles of eyeball
muscles of facial expression
muscles of head
muscles of larynx
muscles of mastication
muscles of neck
muscles of the back
muscles of thorax
muscles of tongue

Literary usage of Muscleman

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Read and Understand by Jill Norris, Marilyn Evans (2002)
"muscleman Molecules Everything is made of tiny particles. The particles are too small to see. The particles are called molecules. ..."

2. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1869)
"BY A CHRISTIAN muscleman. CHRISTIANITY includes morality. Morality imposes obligation through every department of man's being ..."

3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1894)
"Surely, thought I, that must be "the muscleman,"or "handsome Oswell," as we used sometimes to call him ; that's just what he would have done. ..."

4. Letters from the South by James Kirke Paulding (1835)
"But I must not forget honest little Dennis Calla- ghan, who is neither muscleman, nor oysterman ; and at any rate, would much rather have the inside of an ..."

5. Revitalize Your Life: Improve Your Looks, Your Health & Your Sex Lifeby Jack Lalanne by Jack Lalanne (2003)
"People made fun of me, saying there was some nut, a muscleman who was charging money to exercise. Doctors were saying "Don't go to that Jack LaLanne's, ..."

6. History and Bibliography of Anatomic Illustration in Its Relation to by Ludwig Choulant, Mortimer Frank, Fielding Hudson Garrison, Edward Clark Streeter (1920)
"the skeleton and the muscleman, each from three different viewpoints. The proportions are good, and the drawing, although less accurate in the details, ..."

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