STRAPPING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does strapping mean? 

• STRAPPING (adjective)
  The adjective STRAPPING has 1 sense:

1. muscular and heavily built

  Familiarity information: STRAPPING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRAPPING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Muscular and heavily built

Synonyms:

beefy; buirdly; burly; husky; strapping

Context example:

'buirdly' is a Scottish term

Similar:

robust (sturdy and strong in form, constitution, or construction)

Domain region:

Scotland (one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; located on the northern part of the island of Great Britain; famous for bagpipes and plaids and kilts)

 Context examples 

And that he should have such a strapping son and heir to carry on the race of Avon!

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But The Hornet was run by a set of clean-shaven, strapping young men, frank buccaneers who robbed everything and everybody, not excepting one another.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Not that they touched hands often, save at meeting and parting; but that in handling the bicycles, in strapping on the books of verse they carried into the hills, and in conning the pages of books side by side, there were opportunities for hand to stray against hand.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)