Pop‧eye /ˈpɒpaɪ $ ˈpɑː-/
a character also called Popeye the Sailorman, in a US
cartoon strip and
cartoon films. Popeye is a sailor who smokes a pipe, and when he eats cans of
spinach (=a vegetable with large dark green leaves) his muscles immediately grow much bigger and he becomes very strong.
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