flex

CEFRC1

/flɛks/

verb · noun

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He gave his biceps a flex to impress the ladies.
Workout challenges include the plank challenge, the 100 skipping challenge and the flex challenge.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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The board flexes as you step on it.
It's an achievement to stand out from other Marvel movies in terms of special effects, but this whole movie feels like a flex for those computer wizards.
Getting together with other power players at Masa is the ultimate flex of conspicuous consumption. […] A party of five or more requires a deposit of $200 per person at least one week prior to the reservation.

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The hills become more rounded. The slopes are either the stooped shoulders of an aging colossus or the muscular flexes of a geologic youngster, but they are pleasant, comforting. This landscape is what most would think of […]
2002, Gary Noy, Red Dirt: A Journey of Discovery in the Landscape of Imagination, California's Gold Country, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 144
The books lent her by Dr Grimble on period furniture and ceramics interested her deeply, and she studied them at night in the silence of the shop, where she had a flex and a reading lamp installed at her own expense.
1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 57
Flex is quick and cheaper to install than metallic systems, but it yields higher pressure loss than other types of ducts and requires runs of less than 15 feet, minimal turns and elimination of kinks.
2010, Aaron Lubeck, Green Restorations: Sustainable Building and Historic Homes, page 221
He rubbed his hands together. "Believe it or not, there was a time when I considered giving acting a go. What do you think, Miss Fox?" He flexed impressive biceps. "Would I have had a chance against the Schwarzeneggers and the Chuck Norris types?"
1994, Elise Title, Body Heat, page 189
I've got billions and billions of rhymes to flex / 'Cause I've got more rhymes than Carl Sagan's got turtlenecks
2004, “Hey Fuck You”, in To the 5 Boroughs, performed by Beastie Boys

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From Latin flexus, past participle of flecto (“to bend”).