flexest
adjective
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| —n | |
| 1. | (Brit) US and Canadian name: cord a flexible insulated electric cable, used esp to connect appliances to mains |
| 2. | informal flexibility or pliability |
| —vb | |
| 3. | to bend or be bent: he flexed his arm; his arm flexed |
| 4. | to contract (a muscle) or (of a muscle) to contract |
| 5. | (intr) to work according to flexitime |
| 6. | to test or display (one's authority or strength) |
| [C16: from Latin flexus bent, winding, from flectere to bend, bow] | |
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Flexest
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| 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. |
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Word Origin & History
flex
1520s, probably a back formation from flexibility. Related: Flexed; flexing.
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Medical Dictionary
flex (flěks)
v. flexed, flex·ing, flex·es
To bend.
To contract a muscle.
To move a joint so that the parts it connects approach each other.
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