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Encyclopedia > Benched

The term "benched" is American Slang (according to Commonly Used American Slang (http://www.manythings.org/slang/slang1.html)) and it means "taken out of the game".


For Example

A baseball player was doing so badly that he was benched


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Bench - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (342 words)
The Bench language (Bench-non), spoken in southeastern Ethiopia.
In surveying and civil engineering, a bench is a landform consisting of a long strip of land at constant height in an otherwise sloped area.
Bench is also the name of a chain of retail clothing stores in the Philippines.
Bodybuilding Universe - Routines (5890 words)
Bench assistance work will be divided into several basic categories, with a general discussion about the effects of each category of exercises, with extra discussion for specific functions of individual exercises if necessary.
Benching with a cambered bar or a buffalo bar can also work the start of the bench, but once again care must be taken to avoid injury to the shoulders as the acromial process is quite open using these types of bars.
Partial bench exercises can take a wide variety of forms, and will be further subdivided into several categories: initial, or the start of the concentric, lockout, which will be used to refer to any portion of the bench higher than 1Ž2 of the distance to lockout, or specific.
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