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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bicep
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He then had an assistant place the sword against his bicep and put his weight on it.
▪ If anyone sees me flexing my bicep, my cover s ruined.
▪ She slammed the gate across - surprisingly lithe, her bicep bunching - and hit the button for the third floor.
▪ The pack is rolled into the sleeve of his white shirt on a thick filmy bicep.
▪ The passenger in the car fired three shots, with one hitting the victim in his right bicep.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bicep

false singular of biceps (q.v.).

Wiktionary
bicep

n. Upper arm muscle which bends the elbow. ''Usage note:'' Certain authors spell the singular of this word biceps.

Wikipedia
BICEP

BICEP may refer to:

  • Business for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy
  • BICEP and Keck Array (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization)

Usage examples of "bicep".

When she could only stare at him, terrified, he clamped his hands down on her biceps, shaking her until her teeth rattled.

Second Circuit of the Nervous System -- sensory kinaesthetic, hooking up newly-discovered muscles, total attention to bicep mechanics, re-mastering balance, learning new asanas, plough, christie, stem christie, parallel.

Hoochie Kootch girls danced on his belly, Bugs Bunny wrapped around one bicep, the Marine logo around the other, fish and fauna from the Great Northwest trailed down his back and right in the middle of his chest, big as life, was the American flag.

He rubbed his right hand over what she recognized as a nicotine patch stuck to the bubblelike bicep of his left arm, then reached the hand into his mouth and pulled out a wet wad of Nicorette chewing gum.

She scrambled to grasp the metal twisted about her right bicep, bruising her own flesh as she ripped off the twining snakes.

The others grouped behind him, pretending not to hear, but I could see their bicep muscles tensing in their short-sleeve shirts.

Underneath the tank top he wore, his bulging shoulders and biceps looked smooth and tanned.

Suddenly I found myself laboring at the last two machines, alternating biceps and triceps.

Her eyes trailed from his chiseled face, over the smooth undersides of his toned biceps, down the T of curly dark brown hair on his olive complected chest.

Sensing her emotion, he squeezed his biceps tighter around her, so tight that his arms felt like bands of pure strength.

Joy started after him, grab bing his biceps, forcing him to turn around.

Grace gripped his biceps, concentrating on holding tight to her self-control even though she could feel the foundation of resolve crumbling beneath her.

Davies was already at the bar where Fergus, biceps bulging, was easing back the beer handle.

When her image solidified again, her virtual head had been grafted onto the iconic body of Arnold Schwarzenegger, his biceps rippling.

When Willard gave me that quarter in the tent, we were standing behind the crowd, which was gaping at Andro who was showing his big right bicep while twitching his sumptuous left breast.