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noun
1.
a gymnastic apparatus consisting of two wooden or metal balls connected by a short bar serving as a handle, used as a weight for exercising.
2.
a stupid person.
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| —n | |
| 1. | gymnastics, weightlifting an exercising weight consisting of a single bar with a heavy ball or disc at either end |
| 2. | a small wooden object shaped like this used in dog training for the dog to retrieve |
| 3. | slang chiefly (US), (Canadian) a fool |
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Dumbbell
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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Word Origin & History
dumbbell
"weighted bar used for exercise," 1711, originally an apparatus like that used to ring a church bell, but without the bell; used for exercise but sometimes also to practice ringing changes. Figurative sense of "blockhead" first recorded 1920, Amer.Eng.
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Example sentences
Anyone who can hoist a dumbbell and print a business card on a home computer can call him or herself a personal trainer.
He says that with each vibration, the dumbbell catches on the spacetime fabric and pushes itself up a tiny bit.
Not the heavy, raging body-building type, but dumbbell free weight lifting.
Machine weights are only a modified version of the bar and dumbbell.
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