Portuguese: músculo (pt) m, força (pt) f.Walloon: musse (wa) m, tchå (wa) f ( big muscle unformally ), nier (wa) m ( strong muscle, unformally ).Uzbek: mushak (uz), muskul (uz), et (uz).Tetum: please add this translation if you can.Samoan: please add this translation if you can.Peltroc knew that his priority was the leader, not the hired muscle. It was easy enough to dodge him, let him crash into the floorboards. 1985 - Lance Parkin, The Infinity Doctors, p 34.( uncountable, figuratively ) Hired strongmen or bodyguards.It was going to take muscle to pluck Miss Agnes out of the canal. MacDonald, The Long Lavender Look, page 15 The lesson to be drawn from the events of 1914, to Roosevelt's mind, was that civilization needed muscle to defend it, not just solemn words. 2010, Adam Quinn, US Foreign Policy in Context, page 81.( uncountable, figuratively ) Strength, force.The fact that I was middle-aged, bald, married, and raising girls instead of chasing them didn't really bother me.
2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii.( uncountable, usually in the plural ) A well-developed physique, in which the muscles are enlarged from exercise.1945 August 17, George Orwell, chapter 1, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473: You, Boxer, the very day that those great muscles of yours lose their power, Jones will sell you to the knacker
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