Strapping

Quick meaning: Strapping is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of strap.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of strap.

More Meanings

1. Having a sturdy muscular physique; robust.
2. Adhesive plaster for strapping injuries.
3. A length of narrow material to be used for straps, or straps collectively.
4. A beating with a strap.
5. The act of fastening with a strap.
6. (obsolete) (of a young woman) full of vigor; lusty.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

But while the two strapping front men battered Foster, they could not better him, and in the absence of tangible reward for his creative efforts, Pennant almost took matters into his own hands, curling a low free-kick inches wide of Foster's left-hand upright.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for strapping

Depending on context, synonyms include able-bodied, athletic, beefy, brawny, brolic, buff.

Antonyms for strapping

Common opposites include feeble, frail, obese, puny, scrawny, weak.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include burly, buirdly, beefy, husky, robust, skelp.

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