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The Collaborative International Dictionary
muscleman

muscleman \muscleman\ n. a bully employed by a gangster.

Wiktionary
muscleman

alt. 1 A bodyguard. 2 (context bodybuilding English) A man with developed muscles. n. 1 A bodyguard. 2 (context bodybuilding English) A man with developed muscles.

WordNet
muscleman
  1. n. a bully employed as a thug or bodyguard; "the druglord had his muscleman to protect him" [syn: muscle]

  2. someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature [syn: bodybuilder, muscle builder, muscle-builder, musclebuilder]

Wikipedia
Muscleman

Muscleman may denote any man with well-developed muscles, in particular a bodybuilder. In art-related and anatomical contexts, the term is also used for a model in wax (or, in modern times, of unbreakable plastic material) showing the muscles of a man. Such a figure showing the muscles of the human body without skin is also called écorché.

Related and/or more specific uses include:

  • Muscleman, translated title of Japanese comic Kinnikuman

Muscle Man or Muscle Men may refer to M.U.S.C.L.E., a line of collectible toy figures produced in the U.S. from 1985-1988

Usage examples of "muscleman".

What Fern did not say was that though she shared none of these leanings, she had once been certain they were proof of stored-up passions, promises that one day she would wake to find herself beside a hot-blooded ukelele-playing muscleman bent on saving the world through laughter.

Although unsophisticated for use in sensitive jobs, he was a very effective muscleman and collector.

I well remember the night the Governor told me he was going to announce his controversial demand that the federal government remove all Muscleman missile silos from Idaho and that the state be declared a nuclear-free zone.

The Hammer was known primarily as a muscleman ace, but the full scope of his powers was a mystery Any chance of discovery was too much for Puppetman.

They walked down the Midway, past the Skillo games and the Fascination booths and the Three-Card Monte tables and the Bozo cage, past the Wax Museum and the concession stands, past the specialty tent where Billybuck Dancer put on his Wild West Show Three Times Nightly, past the makeshift wrestling ring where the carnival offered 50-Credits-50 to anyone who could stay five minutes with Julius Squeezer, their green-skinned and slightly reptilian muscleman from far Antares.

Then one of them put two fingers into his mouth and let loose with a shrill whistle, and a minute later another half-naked muscleman in baggy pants and a turban showed up.

Flint, noticing that part of the mat was coming loose from the flooring, directed one of games workers to get a robot to fix it before the green muscleman went to work that evening.

I remember humming the Mission Impossible theme song with Jay as we went to plant the last few spikes, creeping with comical stealth and keeping an exaggerated lookout for any imaginary Russian spies or muscleman flunkies, as the sun filled the sky and my heart with a warm sense of contentment.

He and his older brother had been employed as he was now, as enforcers or musclemen, but back then it had been in the big leagues in Queens, New York, for one of the major crime families.

In fact, if anyone was in trouble, it was those two musclemen Pex and Chips.

I knew there was a small element of risk, since the animal might be recognized by the people who had dispatched those musclemen in the first place.

The Skang Kei musclemen were barreling toward me far too quickly to stop.

In the cruiser, I was sandwiched between two impressive musclemen who, with a bit of cosmetic surgery to mess up their clone good looks, could have hired out as freak fighters on bulk alone.

The barkers, the grifters, the hookers, the musclemen, all the night people had assembled there to meet the challenge.

Muscleman starter kit that will fold and mutate like a GoBot or a protein molecule into bulldozers, tanks, satellite stations, and Kalashnikovs.