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bench presses

bench presses is the plural of bench press.

Meaning of bench press

Noun

bench press (plural bench presses)

  1. An exercise performed by pressing the weight of a barbell away from one's body while lying on a bench.
    • ...Nubret has pushed and pulled maniacally at iron while sustaining a diet that would explode an ordinary metabolism—doing for that renowned chest, for instance, forty sets of twenty benchpresses (pushing 210 pounds off his chest a total of eight hundred times every other day)[…]1974, Charles Gaines, George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding, page 18

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Questions about bench presses

What is bench presses the plural of?
Bench presses is the plural of bench press.

Words near bench presses in the dictionary

  1. bench mark
  2. bench memo
  3. bench memos
  4. bench press
  5. bench pressed
  6. bench presses
  7. bench pressing
  8. bench pull
  9. bench pulls
  10. bench saw
  11. bench saws

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