tris

tris

slang A shortening of "triceps" (pronounced like "tries"). This exercise is a great way to tone up your tris. Your arms are going to look weird if you only work out your tris and neglect your bis.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

tris

(trɑɪz)
n. the triceps. I’m working on building up my tris. Been doing lots of pushups.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • prostie
  • prosties
  • reg
  • cig
  • cuz
  • clitty
  • (one) is on the DL
  • sesh
  • et seq.
  • ad out
References in periodicals archive
TRIS Online contains more than 400,000 bibliographic records of federal, state, local, and association research that has been published in books, journals, technical reports, and other media from the 1960s to date (with some coverage from prior years).
Packed into the film's last half-hour, these setpieces represent "Insurgent's" best effort at re-creating the surreal excitement of the first movie, allowing Tris to chase a burning building across the sky, and crash through a bulletproof control-booth window.
In addition to the financing, Deerfield and Tris plan to enter into a product development agreement to leverage Tris' proprietary drug delivery technology.
Tris Pharma is a fully integrated pharmaceutical company focussed on the development of innovative medicines that address unmet patient needs.
As the factions begin to war for control, Tris and her friends are hunted by Jeanine, the Erudite leader.
Women with higher than average exposure to Tris before the intervention began, experienced a 74 percent decrease in their levels following a week of housecleaning.
After attending COD in 2005 and 2006 for paramedicine, Ryan Tris returned in 2016 to pursue engineering.
At this point, samples were divided and immersed in two different decellularization solutions: Protocol I (5 mM EDTA, 50 mM TRIS, and 0.5% antibiotic) or Protocol II (5 mM EDTA, 0.05% trypsin, and 0.5% antibiotic).
Tris Holdings, Tris Search and chat platform's has launched a social search engine that allows members to connect with others searching the same keyword goal is to be used to foster real communication in real life instead of virtual, and bridge online chat to real life chat, the company said.
While the series' gutsy heroine Tris (Shailene Woodley) makes defiant speeches about individuality, Robert Schwentke's dystopian action adventure meekly surrenders to bland genre conformity.
as Tris Meanwhile, Po is reunited with his biological father, Li Shan (Bryan Cranston), and embarks on a quest to harness the power of chi.
Shailene Woodley Tris, her lover Four (Theo James), brother Caleb (Ansel Elgort), good friend Christina (Zoe Kravitz) and Dauntless turncoat Peter (Miles Teller) scale the electrified perimeter of Chicago and discover a radiation ravaged wilderness.
The So freedom fighter Tris, played by Shailene Woodley, and her friends escape into a radioactive wasteland beyond the city wall.
Once again, we head to the near future where the genetically unique Tris (Shailene Woodley) and her freedom-fighting pals escape from a walled-in Chicago into the ruined, post-apocalyptic world outside.
Unlike Katniss Everdeen, Divergent's spunky trailblazer Tris (Shailene Woodley) becomes increasingly reactive in this third outing and is superfluous for extended periods as peripheral characters learn valuable plot information that can be distilled in expository dialogue.