Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger

English

Etymology

After the actor and bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Noun

Arnold Schwarzenegger (plural Arnold Schwarzeneggers)

1. A muscleman.
   • 1989, Orville Schell, Discos and Democracy: China in the Throes of Reform, Doubleday, page 106:

     […] with the sight of young Chinese flexing their musculatures like so many apprentice Arnold Schwarzeneggers.

   • 1996 August 15, ABC_GMA:

     Now, what- explain what's different, though, between what you do, the fact that you do your own, obviously, and, say, what an Arnold Schwarzenegger does.

   • a. 2001, Susan Bordo, “Material Girl”: The Effacements of Postmodern Culture in 2001, Jessica R. Johnston, The American Body in Context: An Anthology, Scholarly Resources, page 123:

     The precision technology of body-sculpting, once the secret of the Arnold Schwarzeneggers and Rachel McLishes of the professional bodybuilding word, has now become available to anyone who can afford the price of membership in a gym.

   • 2009, Sheila Roberts, Love in bloom:

     He was tall, with an Arnold Schwarzenegger chest, and fit with the flower shop as well as the proverbial bull in the china closet.

Related terms

• Ahhnold
• Schwarzenegger

See also

• Governator
• Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wikipedia.Wikipedia