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bench-press

vb. (context weightlifting English) To press the weight of a barbell away from one's body while lying on a bench.

Usage examples of "bench-press".

It isn't as unlikely as it sounds-a lot of the things that started pummelling me could bench-press a professional basketball team, whereas I was only human.

Could bench-press four hundred pounds, had been married for a while and had a three-year-old daughter in Los Angeles, and had the all-time SEAL record for the three-mile ocean swim without fins.

Pedro Luz was in the executive gym, bench-pressing a bottle of stanozolol tablets.