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Definition of biceps : A muscle having two heads or origins; - applied particularly to a flexor in the arm, and to another in the thigh.

Synonyms:

adductor, abductor, disk, cartilage, ciliary muscle, erector muscle, abs, Achilles tendon, fiber

Usage examples:

• When you wish, for instance, to lift your hand toward your face, you unconsciously send a message from your brain down the nerve cables in your spinal cord, out through the nerve- wires of your neck and shoulder, to the big biceps muscle on the front of your upper arm. - "A Handbook of Health", Woods Hutchinson.
• He scratched his head, his left knee, his right biceps and his left ankle, after which he scratched his right knee, his right ankle and his left biceps. - "Penrod and Sam", Booth Tarkington.
• We had never before seen such a chest or such football- like biceps. - "Autobiography of a YOGI", Paramhansa Yogananda.