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strapper

[ strap-er ]

noun

  1. a person or thing that straps.
  2. Informal. a large, robust person.


strapper

/ ˈstræpə /

noun

  1. informal.
    a strapping person
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of strapper1

First recorded in 1665–75; strap + -er 1
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Example Sentences

A minikin three-and-a-half-feet Colonel, being one day at the drill, was examining a strapper of six feet four.

I have put an under-strapper upon writing a twopenny pamphlet to give an account of the whole design.

Instead of being the shirtless strapper of a couple of vicious hack hunters.

Go and round one up, Strapper; and leave me here alone to wrestle with his poor blinded soul.

They may roast me alive or cut me to ribbons; but Strapper Kemp shall never have the laugh on me over that job.

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