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DUMBBELL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dumbbell mean?
• DUMBBELL (noun)
The noun DUMBBELL has 2 senses:
1. an exercising weight; two spheres connected by a short bar that serves as a handle
2. an ignorant or foolish person
Familiarity information: DUMBBELL used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An exercising weight; two spheres connected by a short bar that serves as a handle
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("dumbbell" is a kind of...):
exercising weight; free weight; weight (sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting; it is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An ignorant or foolish person
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
boob; booby; dope; dumbbell; dummy; pinhead
Hypernyms ("dumbbell" is a kind of...):
simple; simpleton (a person lacking intelligence or common sense)
Context examples
Clubs, dumbbells, walking, and a half-hour with the mufflers.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A measurement of the Pelger Huet Anomaly (nuclei of neutrophils and eosinophils appear rod-like, spherical or dumbbell shaped) in a biological specimen.
(Pelger Huet Anomaly Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
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