Meaning & use
bicep
The muscle at the front of the upper arm that bends the elbow, informally used as the singular of "biceps."
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He flexed his bicep to show off the results of months of weight training.
A strained bicep kept the pitcher out of the lineup for two weeks.
A note on using this word
The correct term "biceps" is already singular (from Latin for "two-headed"); "bicep" is a common but informal back-formation.
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