"muscle up" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: muscles up [present, singular, third-person], muscling up [participle, present], muscled up [participle, past], muscled up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} muscle up (third-person singular simple present muscles up, present participle muscling up, simple past and past participle muscled up)
  1. (transitive, intransitive) To train the muscles for increased size and strength. Tags: intransitive, transitive
    Sense id: en-muscle_up-en-verb-8hvZs3PV
  2. (intransitive) To force one's way into or through. Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Bodybuilding, Exercise
    Sense id: en-muscle_up-en-verb-MS0TzVIy Disambiguation of Bodybuilding: 23 73 4 Disambiguation of Exercise: 32 52 16 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs formed with "up", Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 72 5 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "up": 25 67 8 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 14 80 6 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 24 69 7 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 23 73 4
  3. (transitive, intransitive, figuratively) To make stronger or more powerful. Tags: figuratively, intransitive, transitive
    Sense id: en-muscle_up-en-verb-sRkpLjv6

Inflected forms

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          "text": "We spent the summer trying to muscle up for football next term.",
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        "(transitive, intransitive) To train the muscles for increased size and strength."
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      "tags": [
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        "To force one's way into or through."
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        "(intransitive) To force one's way into or through."
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          "ref": "2007, Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, page 26:",
          "text": "Churchill had again thwarted the American impulse to muscle up in the Pacific theater at the expense of the Atlantic[…]",
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        "(transitive, intransitive, figuratively) To make stronger or more powerful."
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        "(intransitive) To force one's way into or through."
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