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Answer for the clue "Work one's muscles ", 4 letters:
flex

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Word definitions for flex in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flex \Flex\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flexed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Flexing .] [L. flexus, p. p. of flectere to bend, perh. flectere and akin to falx sickle, E. falchion. Cf. Flinch .] To bend; as, to flex the arm.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, "to bend," usually of muscles, probably a back-formation from flexible . Related: Flexed ; flexing .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of flexing; "he gave his biceps a flex to impress the ladies"

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Flex is a 1993/95 song by Jamaican reggae musician Mad Cobra. It was a single from the album of the same name and achieved success in the United States (1995) and the United Kingdom (1993) when it was released .

Usage examples of flex.

In the same motion, he flexed his wrist tendons, squeezing tightly so the actuators would be triggered even through the padding of the EVA suit.

Inoshiro flexed vis facial actuators experimentally, shearing off mulch and grime.

My toes curled and my foot flexed, reveling in the delicate touch of the thumb that traced its way from the ball of my foot down the high arch and up into the hollow below my anklebone, managing to stimulate an entire plexus of sensation.

And at last the older members of the tribe had been infected by the new restlessness: Thaggoran sniffing around the old deep tunnels for shinestones, burly red-bearded Harruel climbing the walls like a boy, Konya flexing his muscles and pacing back and forth.

He flexed a leg so that his horny fingers might tap the gilt spurs on his bootheels, meaningfully.

He stepped out on the old footbridge and when he came to the middle flexed his knees as he had done as a boy, in order to feel the gentle, elastic counterthrust of the wooden structure.

As she clung to me, she never moved in disruptive opposition, or murmured the wrong word, or in any way disturbed the deeply satisfying and astonishingly complex rhythms of our passion, but matched each flex and counterflex, each thrust and counterthrust, each shuddering pause, each throb and stroke, until we had achieved and then surpassed flawless harmony.

Tanner moaned and snapped away, sensing the dinichthys below him, kicking out fearfully, slashing ineffectually at nothing as with a sudden vicious tide the ridges and scales swept past him, tons of muscle flexing, the sound of bone on bone jarring through the water.

She sat down and flexed her fingers over the ergonomically designed keyboard.

The Huntsmen strut about with imbecile narcissism in black leather jackets and studded belts, flexing their muscles for the fags to feel.

Sabrina had ever been inside an interrogation room and what she found in Fribourg shattered the Hollywood image of four whitewashed walls with a table and two wooden chairs in the centre of a bare concrete floor and a single, naked bulb hanging from a piece of platted flex.

She flexed her hands, with the extra finger that Herm had told Katherine was common in the Domain families, and which looked so peculiar.

Her hips began to flex strongly and her fingers came up to massage her clitoris.

The idea I had had of putting her leg out in front of her had been an admirable one, because it gaped the shadowy groove between those jouncy globes of hers and it made the buttocks flex uncontrollably.

I sensed her flexing her legs and tightening her shoulders, and knew kinesthetically what she was going to do and matched it without thinking: we spun and flowed and traded places.