pump iron


verb
  1. (intr) slang to exercise with weights; do body-building exercises

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Other Idioms and Phrases with pump iron

pump iron

Lift weights, as in She's started pumping iron three times a week. This idiom was born with the late-20th-century stress on physical fitness. [Second half of 1900s]

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