informal
: extremely muscular : having a physique enhanced by bodybuilding exercises
Mark Wahlberg's swole body should be motivation to hit the gym—at least until you quit your New Year's resolution in 3 weeks …—
TMZ
—often used with getTMZIf you don't take a photo of yourself after you've spent at least 45 minutes trying to get swole, did you even work out?—Hope Schreiber
Hope SchreiberExamples of swole in a Sentence
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Getting swole will still require actual work, though.
—Gear Team, WIRED, 4 Dec. 2023
One of our ancestors had extremely swole leg muscles
By Sara Kiley Watson
Human lineage split from chimpanzees (are our closest living relatives today) about seven million years ago, but early, primitive primates were evolving around 55 million years ago.
—Rachel Feltman, Popular Science, 30 Aug. 2023
Instagram posts have appeared with images of your swole bod.
—Steven Levy, WIRED, 14 July 2023
My main objective wasn’t to get swole, but the lack of growth still bummed me out.
—Brett Williams, Men's Health, 27 June 2023
Gotta get those shoveling muscles swole.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
Jackman has been playing the character of Wolverine for over 20 years, beginning with the 2000 movie X-Men, and his physique throughout that franchise has changed considerably—as have audience expectations regarding just how swole a leading man should be.
—Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 19 Mar. 2023
Austin’s foil: McMahon himself, whose onscreen presence morphed from that of an excitable host with square-dad energy to that of a swaggering, scowling, uncannily swole, and evil boss whose employees provided cathartic comeuppance.
—Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
The swole sentinel manning the door tries to turn her away until Roxy creates a tiny lightning bolt between her thumb and index finger.
—Joshua Alston, Variety, 30 Mar. 2023
Gear Team, WIRED, 4 Dec. 2023
One of our ancestors had extremely swole leg muscles
By Sara Kiley Watson
Human lineage split from chimpanzees (are our closest living relatives today) about seven million years ago, but early, primitive primates were evolving around 55 million years ago.
—Rachel Feltman, Popular Science, 30 Aug. 2023
Instagram posts have appeared with images of your swole bod.
—Steven Levy, WIRED, 14 July 2023
My main objective wasn’t to get swole, but the lack of growth still bummed me out.
—Brett Williams, Men's Health, 27 June 2023
Gotta get those shoveling muscles swole.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
Jackman has been playing the character of Wolverine for over 20 years, beginning with the 2000 movie X-Men, and his physique throughout that franchise has changed considerably—as have audience expectations regarding just how swole a leading man should be.
—Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 19 Mar. 2023
Austin’s foil: McMahon himself, whose onscreen presence morphed from that of an excitable host with square-dad energy to that of a swaggering, scowling, uncannily swole, and evil boss whose employees provided cathartic comeuppance.
—Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
The swole sentinel manning the door tries to turn her away until Roxy creates a tiny lightning bolt between her thumb and index finger.
—Joshua Alston, Variety, 30 Mar. 2023
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“Swole.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/swole. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
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