Yes. A 'sixpack' is - in actuality - a pack of six cans (usually of something to drink, connected at the top by a flexible piece of plastic). But it is used as a metaphor to refer to a well-defined set of rectus abdominis muscles (not everyone has a sixpack). I imagine a female figure could have a sixpack, but in the culture I'm used to it's quite rare (at least it's quite rare for a very fit woman to make a lot of this part of her anatomy).
Etymological tangent: modern English is far from being the first to use a real-world image as the basis for a word that refers to a muscle. The word 'muscle' itself started life as a metaphor: musculus is, in Latin, a little mouse (which you can imagine crawling under a rug and giving the appearance of something moving under the surface.)
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I am not a teacher.Can I say "sixpack shaped abdominal muscles"?
I am not a teacher.
No. It's slang (and not very good slang because it is seldom immediately clear that you don't mean a literal pack of six beverage cans). You don't explain slang.
Lighten up on the sit-ups, Betsy---you're starting to get a six-pack.
His six-pack was his pride and joy, him being the musclehead he was.
You do hear that, but it sounds like a television commercial to me. I would call the whole thing either commercialese or bodybuilder's jargon. I would not say that this "six-pack" is in general use. There is a lot of slang surrounding muscle definition. You can be "ripped" or "shredded", too.How about six-pack abs?
You do hear that, but it sounds like a television commercial to me. I would call the whole thing either commercialese or bodybuilder's jargon. I would not say that this "six-pack" is in general use. There is a lot of slang surrounding muscle definition. You can be "ripped" or "shredded", too.
Why is "on" used when we talk about a series. "If you missed the last episode, here is what was happening on "The Shameless"?I saw it ON television IN a commercial.
I am not a teacher.Why is "on" used when we talk about a series. "If you missed the last episode, here is what was happening on "The Shameless"?
I am not a teacher.
God only knows. Why do the Brits say "different to" where we say "different than"? It's called "idiom" my friend, and it's a harsh master.
I am not a teacher.Basically we say "on......." when we talk about a series or a song and "in " when it's a comercial?
I am not a teacher.
God only knows. Why do the Brits say "different to" where we say "different than"? It's called "idiom" my friend, and it's a harsh master.