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Dumb-bell   Listen
noun
dumb-bell, dumbbell  n.  
1.
An exercising weight, consisting of two spheres or spheroids, connected by a short bar for a handle; used (often in pairs) for gymnastic exercise.
2.
An ignorant or foolish person.
Synonyms: dummy, dope, boob, booby, pinhead.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Dumb-bell" Quotes from Famous Books



... a dumb-bell! J. B. sure knows his stuff. He realizes he's dealing with practically new and little seasoned men ... and he's trying to save their morale and bolster it up for the biggest game of the year—against Delmar. ...
— Interference and Other Football Stories • Harold M. Sherman

... wicked bitter wind with a lacing of hail to it, a wind that came and was gone in less than ten minutes, but blocked the roads with fallen trees, toppled over a barn, and—blew potatoes out of the ground! When that was done, a white cloud shaped like a dumb-bell whirled down the valley across the evening blue, roaring and twisting and twisting and roaring all alone by itself. A West Indian hurricane could not have been quicker on its feet than our little cyclone, and when the house rose a-tiptoe, like a cockerel in act to crow, and ...
— Letters of Travel (1892-1913) • Rudyard Kipling



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