obliques

See also: obliqués, obliqües, and obliqüés

English

Noun

obliques pl (plural only)

  1. Collectively, the abdominal muscles responsible for rotation of the trunk.
    • 2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: the gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times‎[1]:
      The good news. Three weeks into the programme I am rediscovering bits of my body I had forgotten existed; biceps, triceps, hamstrings and those funny muscles on the sides of the abdomen called obliques, the toning of which is supposed to eliminate the love handle.

Noun

obliques

  1. plural of oblique

French

Adjective

obliques

  1. plural of oblique

Latin

Verb

oblīquēs

  1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of oblīquō
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