Definition of "musclebound" [musclebound]

• Having inelastic, overdeveloped muscles, usually as the result of excessive exercise. (adjective)
• Hindered by or as if by overdeveloped muscles. (adjective)
• Characterized by inflexibility; rigid. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "In those days, few football players lifted weights because it was considered vain and because they feared becoming "musclebound" and losing their speed."
• "I'm kind of musclebound, I guess, but I don't let that interfere with my quickness any."
• "One is a standing military with plenty of airships, mecha, and musclebound space marines led by Miles Quaritch, played by Stephen Lang, who, it must be said, pulls of the one-dimensional Hollywood stereotype of the crazy, bigoted, violent marine probably better than anyone else could."