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Arnold Schwarzenegger
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English
Etymology
After the actor and bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Noun
A muscleman.
en 1989 Orville Schell Discos and Democracy: China in the Throes of Reform http://books.google.com/books?id=zoijP-xuLWkC&pg=PT106&dq=%22Arnold+Schwarzeneggers%22#v=onepage 106 Doubleday with the sight of young Chinese flexing their musculatures like so many apprentice Arnold Schwarzeneggers.
en August 15, 1996 ABC_GMA Now, what- explain what's different, though, between what you do, the fact that you do your own, obviously, and, say, what an Arnold Schwarzenegger does.
a. 2001, Susan Bordo, “Material Girl”: The Effacements of Postmodern Culture in 2001, Jessica R. Johnston, The American Body in Context: An Anthology, Scholarly Resources, page 123:
The precision technology of body-sculpting, once the secret of the Arnold Schwarzeneggers and Rachel McLishes of the professional bodybuilding word, has now become available to anyone who can afford the price of membership in a gym.
en 2009 Sheila Roberts Love in bloom He was tall, with an Arnold Schwarzenegger chest, and fit with the flower shop as well as the proverbial bull in the china closet.
Related terms
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See also
en Governator
en eponyms
en Bodybuilding People