gym rat
nounEtymology
US origin, late 1970s.
Definitions
A person who spends an unusually large amount of time at a gym.
- Three decades ago, the trappings of sports equipment in those rooms took a magnetic hold on "gym rat" McGuire.
- I was a real "gym rat." I'd go home and eat, then come back to the gym and play some more. I mean, I practically lived in that gym.
- This gym rat dripping tattoos in a sweatshirt with the sleeves ripped off was brooding at the juke box, like it had just asked him a very difficult question that he was determined to answer.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA