dumb-bell
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
dumb-bell
▶noun
- 1 a short bar with a weight at each end, used typically in pairs for exercise or muscle-building.
- 2 N. Amer. informal a stupid person.
– origin C18: orig. denoting an object similar to that used to ring a church bell (but without the bell, so ‘dumb’).
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