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quads

[ kwodz ]

plural noun

, Informal.
  1. quadriceps muscles.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of quads1

First recorded in 1955–60; by shortening

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Example Sentences

Step-ups not only strengthen your quads and glutes, but also improve range of motion.

Step-Ups Skiing and snowboarding are both “leg sports,” so strengthening the quads is hugely important, Morin says.

The Governator recently became a symbol of excess again for reasons unrelated to the size of his quads.

Middlebury is gorgeous, with big, open quads and limestone buildings that echo Yale's.

It's only the same old familiar quads on a larger scale over again.

Here are the same courts, or closes, called courts at Cambridge, and quads at Oxford.

A good plan is to put a slip of paper at one end of the line of quads or letters (See A, Fig. 5), and to push up the knee firmly.

High Spaces and Quads—Used in type composition when the page is to be molded for electrotyping.

Hollow Quads—Large blanks are sometimes cast with hollow parts to make them lighter and to economize metal.

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