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built

adjectivenounverbcommon in dialogue

  • United States//ˈbɪlt//

well-built, muscular or toned.

adjective

  1. 1

    informalwell-built, muscular or toned.

    Wow! Your new boyfriend's really built.

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteShape; build; form of structure.

    the built of a ship

    The sailor sees the burthen, the built, and the distance of a ship at sea, while she is a great way off.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of buildsimple past and past participle of build.

Forms

plural
builts
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Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).