English edit

Etymology edit

muscle +‎ girl, modeled after muscleman.

Noun edit

musclegirl (plural musclegirls)

  1. A strong and muscular girl or woman, especially one who is a bodybuilder.
    • 1997, Edmond Grant, Ken Fox, The Motion Picture Guide: 1997 Annual (The Films of 1996), page 265:
      Musclegirl Alex Rain (Sue Price) awakens on the East African plain with no memory, having been shot clean through the head.
    • 1998, Terry Hermsen, Robert Fox ·, Teaching Writing from a Writer's Point of View, page 170:
      She thinks of Samantha Grimes, and suddenly Julie raises her fists above her head, elbows bent, and assumes a musclegirl pose, admiring herself in the cloudy silver glass.
    • 2007, Gena Showalter, Red Handed, page 92:
      She wasn't the ginormous musclegirl I'd envisioned.

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