strapping meaning: definition, quotations

strapping

adj

Having a sturdy muscular physique; robust.

But while the two strapping front men battered Foster, they could not better him, and in the absence of tangible reward for his creative efforts, Pennant almost took matters into his own hands, curling a low free-kick inches wide of Foster's left-hand upright.2011 February 12, Les Roopanarine, “Birmingham 1 - 0 Stoke”, in BBC:
As he waited for his seminar to begin, a “very tall, handsome” man walked in. “He was strapping,” Browde recalled decades later, and everyone looked up and clocked him.2023 December 2, Jonny Steinberg, “The Mandela behind the mask”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:

Obsolete (of a young woman) full of vigor; lusty.

Synonyms: 48 terms
able-bodied, athletic, Atlantean, beefy, beefed out, brawny, brolic, buff, built, built like a brick shithouse, built like a tank, buirdly, burly, Cyclopean, deep-rooted, dench, diced, fit, gigantic, Herculean, hale, hearty, hench, husky, in shape, jacked, lusty, like a giant refreshed, made of iron, muscular, muscled, muscleful, ripped, rugged, sculpted, sinewy, strapping, strong as a lion, strong as a horse, strong as an ox, strong as brandy, swole, toned, virile, well-built, well-fed, well-knit, wiry
Antonyms: feeble, frail, obese, puny, scrawny, weak
Derived terms: strappingly
Related terms: beautiful man, beautiful woman
Hypernyms: big, bulky, great, heavy, heavyset, heavyweight, hefty, large, stalwart, stocky, stout, thickset, physique
Hyponyms: chiseled, mesomorphic, manly, man-like, manful, masculine, peeled, shredded
Meronyms: broad-shouldered, caked up, yoked

noun

Adhesive plaster for strapping injuries.

Jones had heavy strapping on his left thigh and it was tempting to wonder what José Mourinho, his manager at Manchester United, will have made of it in a week of withdrawals from Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur players.2017 November 10, Daniel Taylor, “Youthful England earn draw with Germany but Lingard rues late miss”, in The Guardian (London):

A length of narrow material to be used for straps, or straps collectively.

A beating with a strap.

The act of fastening with a strap.