flex

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  1. transitive verb To bend (something pliant or elastic).
  2. transitive verb To bend (a joint).
  3. transitive verb To bend (a joint) repeatedly.
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  • His muscles wouldn't flex, and he could hardly move. —  SCOTT McGOUGH
  • Only some would be able to trigger the Pakki-flex, and a far fewer would have the emotional makeup and temperament to be on more or less permanent display. —  FSF,July2008
  • In some cases, if you're moving your instruments around and they hit the outdoors or a "different" environment, it can actually be worse if your house is humidified simply because your instruments will never "flex" -- they'll always stay at 45\% or whatever. —  Mandolin Cafe News
  • Rich Rodecker's blog on flash, flex, actionscript, javascript, and php, with a dash of randomness —  fullasagoog.com full roast blend
  • During that muscle flex, our President came running out of the White House with urgency that we are in dire straits economically. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Latin flectere, flex-, to bend.

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  1. from Latin flexus, past participle of flectere, bend, bow, curve, turn round. Cf. flected, fletch, etc.
  2. Latin flexus, past participle: see flex, v.
 

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