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View synonyms for pump iron
pump iron
verb
- slang.intr to exercise with weights; do body-building exercises
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Lift weights, as in She's started pumping iron three times a week . This idiom was born with the late-20th-century stress on physical fitness. [Second half of 1900s]Advertisement
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