quads

[ kwodz ]

plural noun

, Informal.

1. quadriceps muscles.

Word History and Origins

Origin of quads¹

First recorded in 1955–60; by shortening

Example Sentences

Step-ups not only strengthen your quads and glutes, but also improve range of motion.

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Step-Ups Skiing and snowboarding are both “leg sports,” so strengthening the quads is hugely important, Morin says.

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The Governator recently became a symbol of excess again for reasons unrelated to the size of his quads.

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Middlebury is gorgeous, with big, open quads and limestone buildings that echo Yale's.

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It's only the same old familiar quads on a larger scale over again.

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Here are the same courts, or closes, called courts at Cambridge, and quads at Oxford.

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A good plan is to put a slip of paper at one end of the line of quads or letters (See A, Fig. 5), and to push up the knee firmly.

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High Spaces and Quads—Used in type composition when the page is to be molded for electrotyping.

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Hollow Quads—Large blanks are sometimes cast with hollow parts to make them lighter and to economize metal.

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