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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]muscle up (third-person singular simple present muscles up, present participle muscling up, simple past and past participle muscled up)
- (transitive, intransitive) To train the muscles for increased size and strength.
- We spent the summer trying to muscle up for football next term.
- (intransitive) To force one's way into or through.
- 2007, Neil Schlecht, Spain for Dummies, page 470:
- There are only about ten tables, so you'll probably have to wait — or just muscle up to the bar like everyone else.
- (transitive, intransitive, figuratively) To make stronger or more powerful.
- 2007, Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, page 26:
- Churchill had again thwarted the American impulse to muscle up in the Pacific theater at the expense of the Atlantic […]
Translations
[edit]to train the muscles for increased size and strength
to force one's way into or through
to make stronger or more powerful