flex

To bend a body part or tighten a muscle by using your muscles.

• Flex your fingers slowly.
• He flexed his arm to show his muscles.
• Can you flex your knee without pain?

Similar words: bend, contract

Opposites: extend

Common phrases: flex your muscles, flex your fingers, flex your knee

To bend something, or to bend when pressure is applied.

• The thin board flexes under your weight.
• She flexed the plastic strip between her fingers.
• The bridge must flex slightly in strong winds.

Similar words: bend

Common phrases: flex a rod, flex under pressure, flex slightly

An act of showing off, or something impressive used to show off.

• That expensive watch is quite a flex.
• Buying everyone dinner was a big flex.
• Posting his bank balance felt like a weird flex.

Similar words: boast, brag, display

Common phrases: weird flex, big flex, ultimate flex

A movement that bends a body part or makes a muscle tighten.

• Try a gentle flex of your wrist.
• A flex of her arm revealed the muscle.
• He finished the exercise with one final flex.

How to use it: a flex of something (A quick flex of his wrist sent the ball spinning.)

Similar words: bend, contraction

Common phrases: gentle flex, flex of something, muscle flex