military press

1. 1.

   a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then smoothly lifted overhead

   Synonymspress

   Broaderweightlift

Questions about military press

What does military press mean?

military press means "a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then smoothly lifted overhead".

What is another word for military press?

Close synonyms include press. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is military press a common word?

military press is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.