bulging

adjective

bulg·​ing ˈbəl-jiŋ 

 also  ˈbu̇l-

1

: swelling or thrusting out from a surrounding or adjacent surface : protuberant

bulging eyes

bulging muscles

2

: swollen with contents

bulging pockets

a bulging wallet

There were cardboard boxes piled up on the curb along with four bulging black plastic bags.

—Sue Grafton

Examples of bulging in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Late Thursday night, the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection released its final report, a bulging 845-page account of a months-long effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. —Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 23 Dec. 2022

One of the cockeyed squid's eyes is big, bulging and yellow. —Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2017

Bubbling up and around these walls are 1,062 triangular glass panes shaped to look like a bulging, misshapen geodesic dome. —Kelly Crow, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2022

Belle broke into the most famous flex in Cleveland history, showing a bulging bicep to the Red Sox dugout. —Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 10 Sep. 2022

Word History

First Known Use

1812, in the meaning defined at sense 1