beer muscles

Definitions

1. 1

   An aggressive attitude resulting from consumption of an alcoholic beverage.

   • Many people, especially after a few beers, grow “beer muscles” and are ready to fight for any reason.
   • The show has become a come-on for drunks to flex their beer muscles.
   • “Everybody's out partying, people start drinking, old beefs pop up, and people get their beer muscles out and start fighting.”
2. 2

   A protruding stomach, supposedly indicative of excessive consumption of beer.

   • Grothers Gribble, Berger, Wolf, Shadwill and the writer are still nursing their “beer muscles.” I mean German goitres.
   • “You can't find a better-tasting beer,” said Farmer Cheatle, a resident who was losing a battle to hold in a bulging belly he called “beer muscles”.
   • Nick made legs of his fingers and walked them on the baby's belly. . . . “[L]ook at those beer muscles!”
3. 3

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beer, muscles.

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