Crossword clues for triceps
triceps
- Arm muscles
- Push-ups exercise them
- Muscle used in bench-pressing
- Muscles in short time before additional message
- Muscle of the upper arm
- College athlete in the end takes drugs outside to get muscles
- Stumbles around beach regularly twisting muscle
- Something added behind second muscle
- Upper arm muscle
- Upper-arm muscle
- Bench press beneficiary
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Triceps \Tri"ceps\, n. [NL., fr. L. triceps, having three beads; tres, tria, three + caput head: cf. F. triceps. See Three, and Chief.] (Anat.) A muscle having three heads; specif., the great extensor of the forearm, arising by three heads and inserted into the olecranon at the elbow.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context anatomy English) Any muscle having three heads. 2 (context anatomy English) Specifically, the triceps brachii.
WordNet
n. any skeletal muscle having three origins (but especially the triceps brachii)
Usage examples of "triceps".
He turned sideways and straightened one arm to make the triceps stand out.
She was mystified for a couple of heartbeats, and then she figured out what it was: his triceps muscle.
I switched to the fork, bending my knees, letting my triceps and shoulders power the tines through the topsoil.
Trixie had picked up some weights and was warming up her triceps with two-pounders in each hand.
On Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, he labored to improve his chest, upper back, neck, shoulders, biceps, triceps, and forearms.
The flaccidity of her triceps muscle was so complete as to disturb Father Collins with its intimations of mortality and her odor was of ill digestion.
There was marked muscle definition where there had been none before, and when I experimentally poked my flexed biceps and triceps, I was astounded to discover that they were iron hard.
His eyes bulged, tendons stood out from his neck, and his triceps burned as though coated with blazing pitch.
His bulging biceps and triceps, as well as his black leather vest and green fatigue pants, were caked with dirt from his prolonged crawling along the ditch.
The hairy arms securing him momentarily weakened, and Blade surged his massive biceps and triceps, exerting his prodigious strength, and broke free.
Weight training left his triceps and pectorals quivering spasmodically, as Antinous taunted and cursed him.
Partridge mentions an instance, in a strong and healthy man, of rupture of the tendon of the left triceps cubiti, caused by a fall on the pavement.
Shemsi weighed Leo, then measured his height, length of arm and leg, and the size of biceps, triceps, femoris, and hamstring muscles.
His bulging biceps and triceps, as well as his black leather vest and green fatigue pants, were caked with dirt from his prolonged crawling along the ditch.
Suddenly I found myself laboring at the last two machines, alternating biceps and triceps.