biceps
Pluralbiceps, bicepses, bicipites
- 1The big muscle at the front of the upper arm that bends the elbow.
Like a rope that pulls your lower arm up when you bend it.
He curled the dumbbell to work his biceps.
She felt a sharp pain in her biceps after lifting the boxes.
- 2The upper part of the arm, or the muscles in it, in everyday casual talk.
He flexed his biceps to show off at the beach.
She's been training hard and her biceps look huge now.
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- 3Any muscle that has two parts, called heads, joining into one.
Like two ropes tied into one, so that both pull on the same hook.
The two heads of a biceps come together and pull on the bone through one tendon.
The large muscle at the back of the thigh is also a biceps.
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- 4A place in the rhythm of a line of poetry that can take one long syllable or two short ones.
Like a parking space that fits one big car or two small ones.
In this line, the poet filled the biceps with two short syllables.
Each biceps gives the rhythm a little more freedom.
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Origin
From Latin biceps, meaning "two-headed," made from bis ("double") and caput ("head").