as in moron
a stupid person
no, you're not a dumbbell—this is one of the hardest courses the school offers
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Recent Examples of dumbbell
The difference here, of course, is that the exerciser is using dumbbells instead of a 45-pound shepherd mix!
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Matt Parrott, Arkansas Online, 29 June 2025
Building strong biceps doesn’t have to exclusively involve curling a set of dumbbells until you’re utterly exhausted.
—Alyssa Ages, Outside Online, 28 June 2025
The lawsuit details the use of a weightlifting belt and dumbbells during the incident and alleges that racial slurs and death threats were made.
—Theo Karantsalis, Miami Herald, 13 June 2025
Select a pair of light dumbbells and stand with your feet just beyond shoulder-width apart.
—Matt Parrott, Arkansas Online, 29 June 2025
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Matt Parrott, Arkansas Online, 29 June 2025
Building strong biceps doesn’t have to exclusively involve curling a set of dumbbells until you’re utterly exhausted.
—Alyssa Ages, Outside Online, 28 June 2025
The lawsuit details the use of a weightlifting belt and dumbbells during the incident and alleges that racial slurs and death threats were made.
—Theo Karantsalis, Miami Herald, 13 June 2025
Select a pair of light dumbbells and stand with your feet just beyond shoulder-width apart.
—Matt Parrott, Arkansas Online, 29 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dumbbell
Noun
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Each year, fire safety officials warn of the dangers of fireworks and stage demonstrations of dummies that catch fire and watermelons that explode.—
Linda Trischitta,
Sun-Sentinel.com,
10 July 2017
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At NASA Langley's Landing and Impact Research Facility, ten crash test dummies were buckled into a section of airplane fuselage and dropped from the sky.—
Chris Clarke,
Popular Mechanics,
6 July 2017
Noun
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So, the parallel thing that I’ve been frustrated by recently is not just calling Trump stupid, but calling Trump voters stupid.—
Drew Broussard
May 22,
Literary Hub,
22 May 2025
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Sometimes too stupid is actually smartski but sometimes is just stupid stupid.—
Caroline Downey,
National Review,
27 Mar. 2025
Noun
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But the Trump administration’s announcement of an 8.9 percent equity stake in chipmaker Intel is a reminder that government mostly picks losers.—
Clyde Wayne Crews Jr,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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Losers Legacy firms struggling to adapt: In the losers camp, meanwhile, Ives names design software firm Adobe and chipmaker Intel as some of the stocks to avoid.—
Ryan Browne,
CNBC,
22 Aug. 2025
Noun
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So Bull does what any sensible, testicle-loving mutt would do.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
13 Aug. 2025
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The phrase has become shorthand for a kind of national inferiority syndrome—a sense that Brazil, despite its grand ambitions and global flair, thinks of itself as a mutt trying to hang with pedigrees.—
Shannon Sims,
New Yorker,
30 July 2025
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As Ray Winstone might say, what a prat.—
Holman W. Jenkins,
WSJ,
29 Mar. 2022
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Through it all, however, the gal has retained a sort of grand hauteur, even while prat-falling into a bush.—
Lester Fabian Brathwaite,
EW.com,
24 Mar. 2022
Noun
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Apex predators seldom just drop dead, so an explanation was needed when the carcass of a seemingly healthy 11-foot, 4-inch great hammerhead shark was discovered off southeast Florida.—
Mark Price,
Miami Herald,
22 Aug. 2025
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Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, great hammerhead sharks are common sharks that inhabit the open ocean and the shallow coastal waters of both the Gulf and Atlantic coasts of Florida.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
People.com,
4 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Hogan also had a personality that connected with the audience as something more than a one-dimensional, meathead heel.—
Marc Raimondi
June 25,
Literary Hub,
25 June 2025
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To that end, Moss found a perfect workout partner and meathead muse back in Des Moines.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
12 June 2025
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Vendors sold spicy dishes traditional to their countries like Jamaican jerk chicken and tacos from Mexico and the not-so-spicy, like raclette, a dish traditional to Switzerland, where molten cheese from a wheel of raclette cheese is poured over potatoes and other foods.—
Dominick Williams
August 17,
Kansas City Star,
17 Aug. 2025
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Bertha was right, George is being a jerk, and Larry needs to wipe that smug smile off his face.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
11 Aug. 2025
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“Dumbbell.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dumbbell. Accessed 4 Sep. 2025.
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