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press-up

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Other sports
ˈpress-up noun [countable]  British EnglishDSO a type of exercise in which you lie facing the ground, and push your body up with your arms 俯卧撑 SYN American English push-up4  See picture of 见图 press-up5 see picture at 见图 gym
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press-upThe Corporal who was with us at the time, a new one detached from Orange, immediately awarded Mike 2,000 press-ups.Shame heats our cell, and press-ups, and prayers.Examples of which most people have heard are press-ups, stomach curls, and leg lifts.We had been getting it wrong, so were face down in a foot of water in the field doing press-ups.In return for their addresses he would allow me to stop doing press-ups in the mud.He was doing press-ups, an activity which Dougal found distasteful.What an incitement to lust all those press-ups must be.I pissed in a test-tube, had four injections and did twenty press-ups to get my heart going.
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press-up
ˈpress-up noun [countable]

British English a type of exercise in which you lie facing the ground, and push your body up with your arms
   SYN  push-up American English


press-upBrE /ˈpres ʌp/ 🔊NAmE /ˈpres ʌp/ 🔊 (BrE) (also ˈpush-up NAmE, BrE ) noun [usually plural]
an exercise in which you lie on your stomach and raise your body off the ground by pressing down on your hands until your arms are straight 俯卧撑