strapping

verb

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of strap

  2. 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.
  3. (of a young woman) full of vigor

    (of a young woman) full of vigor; lusty.

  4. + 4 more definitions
    1. 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.
    2. A length of narrow material to be used for straps, or straps collectively.

    3. A beating with a strap.

    4. The act of fastening with a strap.

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