"pec" meaning in English

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      "form": "pecs",
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        "plural"
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    }
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        {
          "word": "pec bounce"
        },
        {
          "word": "pec deck"
        },
        {
          "word": "pec pop"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He's flexing his pecs at anyone who'll look.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 March 5, Alex Hawgood, “What Is ‘Bigorexia’?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "The quest for perfect pecs is so strong that psychiatrists now sometimes refer to it as “bigorexia,” a form of muscle dysmorphia exhibited mostly by men and characterized by excessive weight lifting, a preoccupation with not feeling muscular enough and a strict adherence to eating foods that lower weight and build muscle.",
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      "glosses": [
        "The pectoralis major muscle."
      ],
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          "pectoralis major",
          "pectoralis major"
        ],
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          "muscle",
          "muscle"
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        "(colloquial, usually in the plural) The pectoralis major muscle."
      ],
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "a pectoral muscle",
          "word": "rintalihas"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛk"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pec"
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  "etymology_text": "Latin pecūnia (“money”)",
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      "glosses": [
        "Money."
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      "qualifier": "Eton College",
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        "(UK, slang, obsolete, Eton College) Money."
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛk"
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      "word": "pec bounce"
    },
    {
      "word": "pec deck"
    },
    {
      "word": "pec pop"
    }
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        },
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          "text": "The quest for perfect pecs is so strong that psychiatrists now sometimes refer to it as “bigorexia,” a form of muscle dysmorphia exhibited mostly by men and characterized by excessive weight lifting, a preoccupation with not feeling muscular enough and a strict adherence to eating foods that lower weight and build muscle.",
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      ],
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      ],
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a pectoral muscle",
      "word": "rintalihas"
    }
  ],
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