Merriam-Webster's word of the day is
swole
pronounced SWOHL
an adjective
(informal)
informal : extremely muscular : having a physique enhanced by bodybuilding exercises
(often used with get)
Often used on social media, swole, a complimentary term for those with a physique enhanced by weightlifting and bodybuilding exercises, goes back to Middle English as a past tense and past participle of swell meaning “to enlarge,” “to bulge,” or “to puff out” (literally and figuratively). In the late 1980s the sense of “having well-defined muscles” emerged as a regional variant of swollen in African American English. Rapper Ice-T used the adjective in his 1991 song “The Tower”: “And hit the weight pile / The brothers was swole.” In addition, it was applied as a verb to describe becoming ripped or cut, as when the late Tupac Shakur applied it in his 1997 song “When I Get Free”: “… did push-ups till I swole up.”
(taken from Merriam-Webster)
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