strapping
verbDefinitions
present participle and gerund of strap
Having a sturdy muscular physique
Having a sturdy muscular physique; robust.
- As he waited for his seminar to begin, a “very tall, handsome” man walked in. “He was strapping,” Browde recalled decades later, and everyone looked up and clocked him.
(of a young woman) full of vigor
(of a young woman) full of vigor; lusty.
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Adhesive plaster for strapping injuries.
- Jones had heavy strapping on his left thigh and it was tempting to wonder what José Mourinho, his manager at Manchester United, will have made of it in a week of withdrawals from Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur players.
A length of narrow material to be used for straps, or straps collectively.
A beating with a strap.
The act of fastening with a strap.
The neighborhood
- synonymable-bodied
- synonymathletic
- synonymAtlantean
- synonymbeefy
- synonymbeefed out
- synonymbrawny
- synonymbrolic
- synonymbuff
- synonymbuilt
- synonymbuilt like a brick shithouse
- synonymbuilt like a tank
- synonymbuirdly
- antonymfeeble
- antonymfrail
- antonymobese
- antonympuny
- antonymscrawny
- antonymweak
- neighborbeautiful man
- neighborbeautiful woman
- neighborbig
- neighborbulky
- neighborgreat
- neighborheavy
- neighborheavyset
- neighborheavyweight
- neighborhefty
- neighborlarge
- neighborstalwart
- neighborstocky
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA