Crossword clues for biceps
biceps
- Certain muscles
- Weightlifter's pride
- Something up your sleeve
- Muscle type
- Upper-arm muscles
- Upper-arm bulge
- What pull-ups work
- The "guns" in "Sun's out, guns out"
- Popeye's post-spinach pride
- Places for tattoos
- Muscles in bodybuilders' "guns"
- Muscle toned by curls
- Muscle that flexes the forearm
- Muscle in the upper arm
- Mound of arms
- Macho type's pride
- Hunks flex them
- Guns that don't shoot
- Forearm muscles
- Forearm muscle
- Curls target
- Curler's pride
- Curl target
- Curl beneficiary
- Bulge locations to be proud of
- Bodybuilder's "guns"
- Arm & Hammer logo feature
- __ femoris: thigh muscle
- Mounds of arms
- Bodybuilder's bulges
- They have pull
- They're big in gyms
- Arm wrestler's pride
- Arm muscles that are toned by curls
- Muscle that's often shown off
- "Guns"
- Any skeletal muscle having two origins (but especially the muscle that flexes the forearm)
- Strong man's pride
- Arm or thigh muscle
- Muscles nicknamed guns
- Bodybuilder's concern
- Pull-up pullers
- Flexor muscle
- Muscle that flexes a forearm
- Muscle initially bulging in chaps exercising pretty solidly
- Muscle energy and power needed in last half of aerobics
- Manifestation of armed power
- Say purchase mushrooms for muscle
- Large arm muscle
- Arms workers?
- Twice contracting fungal growth in the arm
- Upper arm muscle
- Workout target
- Iron pumper's pride
- Curling target
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Biceps \Bi"ceps\, n. [L., two-headed; bis twice + caput head. See Capital.] (Anat.) A muscle having two heads or origins; -- applied particularly to a flexor in the arm, and to another in the thigh. [1913 Webster] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s (adj.), from Latin biceps "having two parts," literally "two-headed," from bis "double" (see bis-) + -ceps comb. form of caput "head" (see capitulum). As a noun meaning "biceps muscle," from 1640s, so called for its structure. Despite the -s, it is singular, and classicists insist there is no such word as bicep.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context anatomy English) Any muscle having two heads. 2 Specifically, the biceps brachii, the flexor of the elbow. 3 (context informal English) The upper arm, especially the collective muscles of the upper arm. 4 (context prosody English) A point in a metrical pattern that can be filled either with one long syllable (a longum) or two short syllables (two brevia)
WordNet
n. any skeletal muscle having two origins (but especially the muscle that flexes the forearm)
Wikipedia
In human anatomy, the biceps brachii , commonly known as the biceps, is a two-headed muscle that lies on the upper arm between the shoulder and the elbow. Both heads arise on the scapula and join to form a single muscle belly which is attached to the upper forearm. While the biceps crosses both the shoulder and elbow joints, its main function is at the latter where it flexes the forearm at the elbow and supinates the forearm. Both these movements are used when opening a bottle with a corkscrew: first biceps unscrews the cork (supination), then it pulls the cork out (flexion).
Biceps may refer to:
- Biceps brachii muscle, a muscle located on the inside of the upper arm
- Biceps femoris muscle, one of the hamstring muscles of the back of each thigh
- Biceps (prosody), a point in a metrical pattern
- BICEPS, an acronym used in treating cases of combat stress reaction: see combat stress reaction#BICEPS
- BICEP, acronym for Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization
Biceps is a point in a metrical pattern that can be filled either with one long syllable (a longum) or two short syllables ( brevia). It is found in the dactylic hexameter and the dactylic pentameter.
It is not to be confused with resolution, which is the replacement of a long with two shorts. Resolution is carefully limited within a line, whereas a biceps can freely be either long or two shorts.
Usage examples of "biceps".
His uniform shirt was tight without the armor, and through the thin material she saw bulging biceps, powerful pectorals, and a host of manly muscles.
His huge hands flexed into even more massive fists, his great teeth bared into a fierce grimace, and his biceps bulged, straining through his shirt.
His evening clothes tightly hugged every masculine muscle from his bulging biceps to the powerful quadriceps in his thighs.
Smiling at him, she ran her fingers up his arm, over his biceps to playfully fondle his earlobe.
With all the bandages around his biceps, forearm, thigh, and calf, he looked like a beaten refugee.
Worlag ichor had infected the wound, and the biceps were twice the size they should be.
She followed his blow, striking under his arm to the inner flesh of the biceps and then tearing again at the artery.
The biceps in his upper arms bulged around the silver bands with the small turquoise stones.
His long raven hair was tied back with a beaded red headband, his muscular thighs concealed by the fringed leather leggings, his biceps accented by the twin silver bracelets with the twinkling turquoise stones.
When she could only stare at him, terrified, he clamped his hands down on her biceps, shaking her until her teeth rattled.
He put out his arms where they were, on display, until she looked at them and saw the angry red scorch marks on his forearms and heavy biceps, as much of them as she could see from under his short-sleeved shirt.
Thang an excuse to bat her eyes, reach out and squeeze the biceps of his closest arm, playing the damsel in distress to maximum effect.
But her silver hair had brushed his arm, a cascade of silk only rivaled by the smooth flesh of her wrist caught in his grip, the soft swell of her breast against his biceps, and the sweet scent of her female body.
His biceps bulged under the tight fabric above his elbow and she stared a moment before pulling her gaze away, annoyed at herself.
With both hands wrapped around the golden hilt, she swung her sword, biceps taut, stretched, her entire body behind the killing blow.