See Also: STRENGTH
In his short story, A Hunk of Burning Love, Camoin completes the simile as follows: “Put a pipe in his mouth and he’d look like Popeye.”
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Noun | 1. | ![]() contractile organ, contractor - a bodily organ that contracts skeletal muscle, striated muscle - a muscle that is connected at either or both ends to a bone and so move parts of the skeleton; a muscle that is characterized by transverse stripes pronator - a muscle that produces or assists in pronation supinator - a muscle (especially in the forearm) that produces or assists in supination levator - a muscle that serves to lift some body part (as the eyelid or lip) antagonistic muscle - (physiology) a muscle that opposes the action of another; "the biceps and triceps are antagonistic muscles" eye muscle, ocular muscle - one of the small muscles of the eye that serve to rotate the eyeball rectus - any of various straight muscles muscle cell, muscle fiber, muscle fibre - an elongated contractile cell that forms the muscles of the body involuntary muscle, smooth muscle - a muscle that contracts without conscious control and found in walls of internal organs such as stomach and intestine and bladder and blood vessels (excluding the heart) anatomical sphincter, sphincter, sphincter muscle - a ring of muscle that contracts to close an opening tensor - any of several muscles that cause an attached structure to become tense or firm |
2. | ![]() animal tissue - the tissue in the bodies of animals striated muscle tissue - muscle tissue characterized by transverse stripes cardiac muscle, heart muscle - the muscle tissue of the heart; adapted to continued rhythmic contraction smooth muscle - muscle tissue that does not appear striated under the microscope; has the form of thin layers or sheets | |
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4. | muscle - authority or power or force (especially when used in a coercive way); "the senators used their muscle to get the party leader to resign" authority, potency, authorization, authorisation, say-so, dominance - the power or right to give orders or make decisions; "he has the authority to issue warrants"; "deputies are given authorization to make arrests"; "a place of potency in the state" | |
5. | muscle - possessing muscular strength strength - the property of being physically or mentally strong; "fatigue sapped his strength" | |
Verb | 1. | muscle - make one's way by force; "He muscled his way into the office" go across, pass, go through - go across or through; "We passed the point where the police car had parked"; "A terrible thought went through his mind" |