Definition of "muscleman" [muscleman]

• Informal A man who is physically powerful, especially one with well-developed muscles. (noun)
• Informal A strong man hired as a bodyguard or thug. (noun)

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• "This muscleman is flanked by two tiny bouncy Chihuahuas."
• "The peoples have defied their prison guards and raised their voices loudly against the capitulation projects and accelerating steps towards turning Israel into a friend who can be counted on to play the role of the policeman or the "muscleman" against the new enemy Iran."
• "But neither Francis Bacon nor Lucian Freud nor Damien Hirst has shaped modern art as Hamilton did when he put a lolly with the word POP on it in the hand of a muscleman in his 1956 collage, Just What is it that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?"