muscle

Noun

• 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
    

• a bully employed as a thug or bodyguard
  • the drug lord had his muscleman to protect him
    

• animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells

• one of the contractile organs of the body

Verb

• make one's way by force
  • He muscled his way into the office
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  brawn , brawniness , muscularity , sinew , heftiness , muscleman , muscular tissue , musculus