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/ˈdʌm.bɛl/ · noun
A weight training implement consisting of a short bar with weight counterpoised on each end..
He was exercising with the dumbbells in gym class today.
He also had a room strewn with the toys of the trade and what-have-you: ropes and ironmongery, buoyancy aid and bagpipes, fetid socks and half-eaten haggises, dumbbells and ski-instructor sweaters.
On the map Gansu is shaped like a dumbbell lying obliquely from east to west. Its best known city is Lanjhou, the capital, and also the gateway to the Silk Road. But we did not go there; we were heading for a relatively unknown city a few hundred miles away from Lanjhou, called Tianshuei.
That's fool's gold, you dumbbell. Iron pyrite. Nobody would give you a dime for a ton of it.
Use dumbbell when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dumbbell means A weight training implement consisting of a short bar with weight counterpoised on each end..
Common synonyms include boob, dummy, booby, dope.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He was exercising with the dumbbells in gym class today.
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