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STRAPPER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does strapper mean?
• STRAPPER (noun)
The noun STRAPPER has 1 sense:
1. a large and strong and heavyset man
Familiarity information: STRAPPER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A large and strong and heavyset man
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
bruiser; bull; Samson; strapper
Context example:
a thick-skinned bruiser ready to give as good as he got
Hypernyms ("strapper" is a kind of...):
adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))
Context examples
A strapper—a real strapper, Jane: big, brown, and buxom; with hair just such as the ladies of Carthage must have had.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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