bɹɔːn ˈmʌ.sl̩ ˈmʌ.sl̩ ˈsɪnjuː ˈsɪnju make one's way by force He muscled his way into the office possessing muscular strength authority or power or force (especially when used in a coercive way) the senators used their muscle to get the party leader to resign animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells one of the contractile organs of the body a bully employed as a thug or bodyguard the drug lord had his muscleman to protect him