strapper
a person or thing that straps.
Informal. a large, robust person.
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How to use strapper in a sentence
A minikin three-and-a-half-feet Colonel, being one day at the drill, was examining a strapper of six feet four.
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; | VariousI have put an under-strapper upon writing a twopenny pamphlet to give an account of the whole design.
The Journal to Stella | Jonathan SwiftInstead of being the shirtless strapper of a couple of vicious hack hunters.
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour | R. S. SurteesGo and round one up, strapper; and leave me here alone to wrestle with his poor blinded soul.
The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet | George Bernard ShawThey may roast me alive or cut me to ribbons; but strapper Kemp shall never have the laugh on me over that job.
The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet | George Bernard Shaw
British Dictionary definitions for strapper
/ (ˈstræpə) /
informal a strapping person
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