Entry · catalog no. 6868
swole
/ — /pending
adjective · nationwide · 2026
✓ Verified
1.
Heavily muscled, powerfully built.
“Man came home from the yard twice as swole as he left.”
Origin & Attribution
From an old past-tense form of "swell," reworked in African American Vernacular English by the late 1990s to mean muscular, and spread through hip-hop and the weight room.
Region of origin
West
Midwest
N.East
South
Nationwide / diaspora
nationwide · 2026
Spoken by
nationwide
$SWOLEThe Record · cultural traction
▲ Rising0 yrs
ahead of the mainstream
12/100
peak cultural energy
Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.
Cultural usage — the recordMainstream search interest
First used
2026
in the culture
Recorded here
2026
point of first record
Cultural energy indexed from documented usage, search interest, and citation frequency. The recorded date is the archive’s permanent point of record.
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