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

Word History and Origins

Origin of strapper¹

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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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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