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noun
an exercise in which a person lies flat on the back, lifts the torso to a sitting position, and then lies flat again without changing the position of the legs: formerly done with the legs straight but now usually done with the knees bent.
Origin:
1835–45; noun use of verb phrase sit up
1835–45; noun use of verb phrase sit up
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| 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. |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
sit-up
kind of physical exercise, 1955.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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