hourglass figure
/ˈaɪʊɹɡlæs fˈɪɡjɚ/
noun
the body shape of a woman with a small waist and larger hips and breasts
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1Men have an evolved preference for the hourglass figure in women.
2Women have always obsessed about having an hourglass figure.
3Nevermind an hourglass figure, Cathy went the whole hog and became the hour glass instead with her mind-blowing measurements of a 39-inch burst, 15-inch waist and 39-inch hips.
4Want an hourglass figure?
5That brought about the padded shoulder look, creating a sharp hourglass figure.
beefy
/ˈbifi/
adjective
with a strong body and well-built muscles
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1He's beefy.
2The history between Urijah Faber and Dominick Cruz was beefy from day one.
3This stack is getting beefy.
4you beefy tacos.
5For example, red heroes are usually beefy.
brawny
/ˈbɹɔni/
adjective
(of a person) physically strong with well-developed muscles
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1There's no doubt that ROG Phone 5 and its brawnier Pro and Ultimate cousins will be able to run with the top dogs.
2Remember to watch David Cogen's real-world test of this machine at TheUnlockr, and don't miss my review of its bigger brawnier cousin, the Zephyrus Duo, both linked below.
3In the hand, the V30 is nothing like its predecessors, which were brawny, metal blocks better suited to toolboxes than tuxedo pockets.
4And so they thought I looked more brawny.
5Being brawny gives animals dominance over a landscape, but it also requires much more food, which is a vulnerability.
buff
/ˈbəf/
adjective
(of a person) physically attractive with large muscles
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1Basically: The One Ring buffs his psy attack and the other rings debuf psy defense.
2Spiribirds will give you buffs to your life, stamina, attack, and defense.
3the baristas are buff, shirtless guys?
4This buffs your skin and minimizes cellulite's appearance.
5And buff out scratches in glass furniture.
bullnecked
/bˈʊlnɛkt/
adjective
having a thick and muscular neck, similar to that of a bull

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burly
/ˈbɝɫi/
adjective
strongly built and muscular, with a large and robust physique
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1Get in on this, burly girl!
2It was burly.
3Five burly hyenas against one yearling lion.
4The crusher claw is a little bit more burly.
5Being a burly bear.
gangling
/ɡˈæŋɡəlɪŋ/
adjective
(of a person) tall and thin but not in an elegant way

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gangly
/ˈɡæŋɫi/
adjective
tall, thin, and awkward in appearance or movement
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1Yet, the gangly colt was never discouraged.
2In reality, the Martian Manhunter more closely resembles a gangly dinosaur.
3So we were these two kids-- tall, gangly kids.
4Their leaves, flat buoyant pads, set the stage for a pair of gangly chicks.
5This gangly sea creature has the largest leg span of any crab, and can reach almost 18 feet from claw to claw.
Husky
/ˈhəski/
adjective
large and muscular, with a strong and solid build
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1Tanner the husky.
2On that list, of course, was Jim Calhoun's Huskies.
3- I want a husky.
4My high school mascot was a husky.
5Go huskies!
lank
/ˈɫæŋk/
adjective
tall and thin, with an ungraceful or unattractive appearance
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1At the top of 4, as the kid moves from Tennessee down to New Orleans, and then out to the West, he moves through the South: He sees blacks in the fields lank and stooped, their fingers spiderlike among the bolls of cotton, a shadowed agony in the garden.
2He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together.
3Ichabod's flimsy garments fluttered in the air, as he stretched his long lank body away over his horse's head, in the eagerness of his flight.
4And thou art long, and lank, and brown, As is the ribbed sea-sand.
5His head was sunk upon his breast, and he looked from my point of view like a strange, lank bird, with dull gray plumage and a black top-knot.
lanky
/ˈɫæŋki/
adjective
(of a person) tall and thin in a way that is not graceful
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1It didn’t take long for the lanky officer to make an impression in the town of Arras.
2Being tall, lanky things, giraffes have difficulties finding a comfortable sleeping position.
3With our bulky torsos and lanky arms and legs, we just don’t have what it takes!
4- I would say like lanky is kind of like my vibe.
5The lanky YEARLINGS keep a WATCHFUL eye on their YOUNGER siblings.
leggy
/ˈɫɛɡi/
adjective
having long, slender legs in proportion to their body
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1They get really leggy.
2They grew leggy.
3In my opinion, those are a little bit of a leggy seedling.
4Yeah, they get leggy.
5Where it's got its little leggy!
muscular
/ˈməskjəɫɝ/
adjective
(of a person) powerful with large well-developed muscles
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1Inside the walls of the fallopian tube, muscular contractions gently push the egg toward the uterus.
2I like muscular dystrophy.
3The heart has muscular walls.
4Reduces muscular tension.
5- I wanna say muscular dystrophy.
pear-shaped
/pˈɛɹʃˈeɪpt/
adjective
(of a person) having a wide lower-waist and narrower upper-waist; shaped like a pear

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round-shouldered
/ɹˈaʊndʃˈoʊldɚd/
adjective
having bent shoulders and a hunched back

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stocky
/ˈstɑki/
adjective
having a short but quite solid figure, especially a man
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1In addition to differences in their dentition, mastodons were shorter stockier than mammoths with smaller ears, but there were some exceptions.
2David Berkowitz was kind of stocky like almost like a football player-ish body shape.
3A kind we might see looking at seagulls on the Lido, down to his stocky legs slightly swollen tummy and searching eyes.
4He was about five foot eight and on the stocky side.
5Thick woolly hair helps insulate their short stocky bodies.
stooped
/ˈstupt/
adjective
being of the habit of bending the head and shoulders forward, while walking or standing
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1It has coarse body hair and a stooped posture, like some primitive man, but with grayish-green skin tone, and bestial facial features beneath a black hood.
2From a physical perspective we start off as a little bundle about 50 centimeters high, with cherubic features and elastic soft skin, and then we may end up, some 90 years later, as a stooped, gray, liver-spotted, 180-centimeter high structure.
3Psalm 18:35, DAVID said this of GOD: "you have STOOPED down to make me GREAT."
4He came from the Highest Place and STOOPED down to the Lowest Place To, BASICALLY, wash our feet.
5They walked in a stooped posture, the shoulders well forward, the head still farther forward, the eyes bent upon the ground.
strapping
/ˈstɹæpɪŋ/
adjective
tall, strong, and well-built, often implying an impressive physical appearance
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1So what they're doing is the chain wrench is gonna hold that and band it in place, so that they can apply the strapping to it, and then eventually secure that, and then that's what's actually gonna hold the pressure.
2So now that he's holding that, he's got the chain wrench on there, he's going to apply the strapping, and that's what's gonna hold the pressure on the pipe.
3And then once you start to see a crease along the edge of here on the strapping, that's when you know it's actually taken the pressure off of the leak, and it's applying it to the strong back.
4- You gotta have a whole bunch of red vines for the top strapping, so I twist them together like this.
thickset
/θˈɪksɛt/
adjective
describing a compact, solid build and a broad, muscular frame

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well-built
/ˌwel ˈbɪlt/
adjective
(of a person) with strong and sturdy physical structure or build.

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willowy
/ˈwɪɫəwi/
adjective
tall, slender, and graceful, with long, thin limbs

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beanpole
/bˈiːnpoʊl/
noun
someone with a very tall and thin figure
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1He's a skinny beanpole freak what?
2Plus the stripper joke coming from this little, clean-cut, beanpole of a girl.
3But how did Jackman transform from a 6-foot-2, 180-pound beanpole into the musclebound Wolverine?
4But mom and dad's decision to have a genius ginger beanpole isn't just one about genetics and abilities and appearance, but as a result of those things, also life experience, going beyond the natural and god playing arguments, we can ask whether the direct influence on your kid's DNA is OK, because of how involved it is, like helicopter parenting but for genes.
ectomorph
/ˈɛktəmˌoːɹf/
noun
(physiology) an individual with a naturally thin body type
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1And finally, ectomorphs were long and skinny, after the part that becomes the skin and nervous system.
2Finally, ectomorphs were introverted, sensitive, and self-conscious, which he labeled cerebrotonic.
3The first category we're going to look at is the ectomorph.
4It will help you understand more on ectomorph body types and the types of workouts you require.
flabby
/ˈfɫæbi/
adjective
(of a person or body part) loose and covered with soft flesh
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1Once more-- down-- on the rise-- six-- nuts to the flabby guys.
2And willpower, much like those flabby muscles, needs exercise.
3It feels dense, not flabby
4So that skin is disappointingly flabby.
5The skin is flabby.
squat
/ˈskwɑt/
adjective
being short or thick with an unbalanced figure
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1She does squats.
2Do squats work?
3Can squats help?
4Squats Want perfect hips?
5All jokes aside, squats do have some major benefits.
rangy
/ˈɹeɪndʒi/
adjective
tall and slim, with long legs and arms
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1Rangy, red haired cowboy comes to town, Redheaded stranger.
2If you watch her on anything she does, like the quality that she brings to projects, it's so rangy.
3They vary from short and compact to tall and rangy.
4Gimli the dwarf taller than all the hobbits, he's also taller than Aragorn, played by the five foot eleven Viggo Mortensen and the rangy wizard Gandalf played by Ian McKellen, who is also five foot eleven.
midget
/ˈmɪdʒət/
noun
abnormally small in stature, typically as a result of a medical condition such as dwarfism
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1What's a midget?
2The guy in the ring looks like a midget.
3He said midgets.
4The midgets are a lot of fun to watch.
5Is it a midget?
runt
/ɹˈʌnt/
noun
smaller or weaker than others, it can be considered a derogatory term when applied to people
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1The runt's gone rogue
2Hey runt, are you ready to hang out with the coolest uncle ever?
3He's the runt of the litter.
4A year ago, he was the nervous runt of the litter.
5As the runt of the litter, The misfit struggled to fit into his boisterous family.
squirt
/ˈskwɝt/
noun
someone who is of small stature and may be perceived as unimportant
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1It just squirts things.
2They squirt formic acid.
3Daddy squirted me.
4Squirt, just give it a squirt
5Squirt all over me baby.
bosomy
/bˈʊsəmi/
adjective
describing a woman with a large, full bust or breasts

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busty
/ˈbəsti/
adjective
describing a woman with a large and well-developed bust or breasts
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1It's a Caterpillar legged busty woman with worm hands.
2The main page had that day's lessons, but some eagle-eyed students spotted the words busty college girl at the top of his screen.
3Looking for busty flapper gals.
4As he was teaching his students noticed an indecent bookmark on the lecturer's web browser labeled 'busty college girl'.
5But I think I'm gonna say bustier tops.
buxom
/ˈbəksəm/
adjective
(of a woman) being plump or large in a pleasant way, especially having large breasts
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1Ilse was a buxom redhead who thought a lot of herself.
2We got these big old honks and buxom cleavage-having turkeys.
3Now she's a red carpet staple and a champion for buxom beauty.
4It is the Buxom lips, it's like a gloss almost.
5What's a buxom body type, specifically?
curvaceous
/kɜːvˈeɪʃəs/
adjective
(of a woman) having large breasts, wide hips and a narrow waist
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1But when you're a curvaceous black woman, people feel like it's okay to tell you to cover up.
2So this really hurt my father's feelings, so one day my dad literally went to a costume store and he's a curvaceous man and he bought the tightest spandex Batman costume with cape that you could possibly find and he climbed the gates of my brother's school and stood there clinging on to the gates with his cape blowing in the wind screaming my brother's name.
3Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California!
4And then look at the Indian classical dancer, the Kuchipudi dancer, the Bharatanatyam dancer, curvaceous.
5It's moving, it's divagating, and it's moving in a curvaceous form.
curvy
/ˈkɝvi/
adjective
(of a woman's body) attractive because of having curves
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1It's actually curvy in three dimensions.
2This girl goes way beyond curvy.
3You're definitely curvy in the hips measurement.
4- You're definitely curvy in the hips measurement.
5I'm very curvy.
well-endowed
/wˈɛlɛndˈaʊd/
adjective
(of a woman) having a large and attractive physical feature, such as a full bust or a muscular physique
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1And his two immediate predecessors as Trump's AG were the racist goblin formerly known as Jeff Sessions and then, for a few crazy months, Matthew Whitaker, a man who was once involved in a scandal over a patent company he was involved in, whose crimes included the inventor of a masculine toilet for the well-endowed.
2That he's done He has done us much evil Timothy Pay attention to the time Plate abdomen to me Time with so no one Not the rich Not the informed not the intellectual Not the well-endowed about the articulate The clock just keeps ticking So this invitation has an expiration date on it
3Looks like President Trump's preference for the well-endowed doesn't extend to arts programs.
4- You're not as well-endowed as you thought you were.
angular
/ˈæŋɡjəɫɝ/
adjective
bony, gaunt, or having prominent bone structure
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1Angular momentum applied!
2Angular velocity is the number of rotations per second.
3New sand is really angular.
4Angular momentum is just like regular linear momentum.
5Angular moves are free.
slight
/ˈsɫaɪt/
adjective
slender and lacking a strong build
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1The relative movement of these mirrors is incredibly slight.
2The difference is very slight.
3The chances of higher intelligence developing are slight.
4Number one is being slighted.
5The level of discretionary spending was very slight.
sylphlike
/sˈɪlflaɪk/
adjective
having a tall, slim, and delicate physical appearance, with elegant and flowing movements

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compact
/ˈkɑmpækt/, /kəmˈpækt/
adjective
small, solid, and well-proportioned body
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1The whole thing is very compact.
2The electronics in here are incredibly compact.
3Stick your compact on the tape!
4Icebergs on the other hand are compacted snow, an entirely different origin than sea ice.
5The camera, inside the housing, is ultra compact.

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