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strapper

American

[strap-er] / ˈstræp ər /

noun

a person or thing that straps.
Informal. a large, robust person.

strapper British

/ ˈstræpə /

noun

informal a strapping person

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of strapper

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

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strapper

Tony Fear began working as a "strapper", or a new conductor, at the start of 1961 aged 18.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2013

Von Elm beat Watts Gunn, 8 and 7, and rollicked to a victory over a Chicago strapper named George Dawson.

From Time Magazine Archive

He grew up a violent, strongwilled, liberty-loving strapper.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Robert Smith Surtees

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