See flex in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"word": "fléchir"
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"_dis1": "0 4 87 4 5",
"code": "de",
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"word": "beugen"
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"word": "flettere"
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"ref": "1994, Elise Title, Body Heat, page 189:",
"text": "He rubbed his hands together. \"Believe it or not, there was a time when I considered giving acting a go. What do you think, Miss Fox?\" He flexed impressive biceps. \"Would I have had a chance against the Schwarzeneggers and the Chuck Norris types?\"",
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"ref": "2004, “Hey Fuck You”, in To the 5 Boroughs, performed by Beastie Boys:",
"text": "I've got billions and billions of rhymes to flex / 'Cause I've got more rhymes than Carl Sagan's got turtlenecks",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 108:",
"text": "I shook my head, wondering if I was gonna have to knock Pimp on his ass. \"I don't know where,\" I flexed on him with my height advantage, \"you getting all this 'soft' bullshit from, dawg, but you just keep fuckin around. I can show you gangsta better than I can tell you.\"",
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},
{
"ref": "2017, “Kill Jill”, in Boomiverse, performed by Big Boi ft. Killer Mike and Jeezy:",
"text": "They say it's lonely at the top, but this the best shit ever / Hey, don't you see me out here shinin'? Bitch I'm barely flexin'",
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"To flaunt one's superiority."
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"_dis1": "0 11 9 1 79",
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"sense": "slang: to taunt one's superiority",
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{
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"sense": "to tighten one's muscles",
"word": "napeti"
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"sense": "to tighten one's muscles",
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{
"_dis1": "0 14 36 33 17",
"code": "es",
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"ref": "2002, Gary Noy, Red Dirt: A Journey of Discovery in the Landscape of Imagination, California's Gold Country, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 144:",
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"ref": "2017, \"Mogul Bites\", Black American Moguls, Fall 2017, page 6",
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},
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"ref": "2019, Seth Sommerfeld, \"Worldwide Web\", Inlander, 4 July 2019 - 10 July 2019, page 37",
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"lang": "Dutch",
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"word": "flex off"
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{
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{
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"(transitive, chiefly physics or biomechanics) To bend something."
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"(transitive) To repeatedly bend one of one's joints."
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"To move part of the body using one's muscles."
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"(transitive) To move part of the body using one's muscles."
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"ref": "1994, Elise Title, Body Heat, page 189:",
"text": "He rubbed his hands together. \"Believe it or not, there was a time when I considered giving acting a go. What do you think, Miss Fox?\" He flexed impressive biceps. \"Would I have had a chance against the Schwarzeneggers and the Chuck Norris types?\"",
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"(intransitive) To tighten the muscles for display of size or strength."
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"ref": "2004, “Hey Fuck You”, in To the 5 Boroughs, performed by Beastie Boys:",
"text": "I've got billions and billions of rhymes to flex / 'Cause I've got more rhymes than Carl Sagan's got turtlenecks",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 108:",
"text": "I shook my head, wondering if I was gonna have to knock Pimp on his ass. \"I don't know where,\" I flexed on him with my height advantage, \"you getting all this 'soft' bullshit from, dawg, but you just keep fuckin around. I can show you gangsta better than I can tell you.\"",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2017, “Kill Jill”, in Boomiverse, performed by Big Boi ft. Killer Mike and Jeezy:",
"text": "They say it's lonely at the top, but this the best shit ever / Hey, don't you see me out here shinin'? Bitch I'm barely flexin'",
"type": "quote"
}
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"glosses": [
"To flaunt one's superiority."
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"(intransitive, slang, by extension) To flaunt one's superiority."
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},
{
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "ogǎvam",
"sense": "to bend something",
"word": "огъвам"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to bend something",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "ohnout"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to bend something",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "ohýbat"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to bend something",
"word": "bøje"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to bend something",
"word": "strække"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to bend something",
"word": "bevæge"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to bend something",
"word": "plooien"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to bend something",
"word": "buigen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to bend something",
"word": "taivuttaa"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to bend something",
"word": "knicken"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to bend something",
"word": "biegen"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to bend something",
"word": "piegare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to bend something",
"word": "flettere"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to bend something",
"word": "whanawhana"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to bend something",
"word": "flexionar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "gnutʹ",
"sense": "to bend something",
"word": "гнуть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "izgibátʹ",
"sense": "to bend something",
"word": "изгиба́ть"
},
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to repeatedly bend one's joints",
"word": "bøje"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to repeatedly bend one's joints",
"word": "plooien"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to repeatedly bend one's joints",
"word": "venytellä"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to repeatedly bend one's joints",
"word": "sich biegen"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to repeatedly bend one's joints",
"word": "flettere"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to repeatedly bend one's joints",
"word": "flexionar"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pregǎvam",
"sense": "to move part of the body using one's muscles",
"word": "прегъвам"
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{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to move part of the body using one's muscles",
"word": "bøje"
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to move part of the body using one's muscles",
"word": "plooien"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to move part of the body using one's muscles",
"word": "venytellä"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to move part of the body using one's muscles",
"word": "fléchir"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to move part of the body using one's muscles",
"word": "beugen"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to move part of the body using one's muscles",
"word": "flettere"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to move part of the body using one's muscles",
"word": "flexionar"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to tighten one's muscles",
"word": "bøje"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to tighten one's muscles",
"word": "samentrekken"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to tighten one's muscles",
"word": "jännittää lihaksiaan"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to tighten one's muscles",
"word": "pullistella"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to tighten one's muscles",
"word": "bander"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to tighten one's muscles",
"word": "Muskeln f spielen lassen"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to tighten one's muscles",
"word": "contrarre"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to tighten one's muscles",
"word": "whakawhena"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to tighten one's muscles",
"word": "napinać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to tighten one's muscles",
"word": "prężyć"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to tighten one's muscles",
"word": "tensionar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to tighten one's muscles",
"word": "contracta"
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{
"alt": "му́скулы",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "naprjagátʹ",
"sense": "to tighten one's muscles",
"word": "напряга́ть OR"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to tighten one's muscles",
"word": "napeti"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to tighten one's muscles",
"word": "napnúť"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to tighten one's muscles",
"word": "tensar"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "slang: to taunt one's superiority",
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"word": "flexit"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "slang: to taunt one's superiority",
"tags": [
"standard"
],
"word": "chlubit se"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "slang: to taunt one's superiority",
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"word": "machrovat"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "slang: to taunt one's superiority",
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"word": "flexata"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "slang: to taunt one's superiority",
"tags": [
"standard"
],
"word": "rehvastella"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "slang: to taunt one's superiority",
"word": "flexel"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "slang: to taunt one's superiority",
"word": "menőzik"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "ppomnaeda",
"sense": "slang: to taunt one's superiority",
"word": "뽐내다"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "nadaeda",
"sense": "slang: to taunt one's superiority",
"word": "나대다"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "peullekseuhada",
"sense": "slang: to taunt one's superiority",
"word": "플렉스하다"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "slang: to taunt one's superiority",
"word": "menunjuk-nunjuk"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "slang: to taunt one's superiority",
"word": "fisiquear"
}
],
"word": "flex"
}
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