pecs

[peks]
plural noun Informal.
pectoral muscles.

Origin:
1965–70; by shortening

pecks, pecs.
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Pécs

[peych]
noun
a city in SW Hungary.
German Fünfkirchen.
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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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Pécs (Hungarian peːtʃ) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
an industrial city in SW Hungary: university (1367). Pop: 158 942 (2003 est)

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pecks definition

[pɛk(t)s]
and pecs; pects
  1. n.
    the pectoral muscles. (From weightlifting and bodybuilding.) : Look at the pecks on that guy!
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pecs
pectoral muscles
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