strapping Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb tie with a strap
    strap.
  2. verb beat severely with a whip or rod
    trounce; strap; welt; whip; slash; lash; flog; lather.
    • The teacher often flogged the students
    • The children were severely trounced
  3. verb sharpen with a strap
    strap.
    • strap a razor
  4. verb secure (a sprained joint) with a strap
    strap.
  5. adjective satellite muscular and heavily built
    buirdly; husky; beefy; burly.
    • a beefy wrestler
    • had a tall burly frame
    • clothing sizes for husky boys
    • a strapping boy of eighteen
    • `buirdly' is a Scottish term

WordNet


Strap"ping adjective
Definitions
  1. Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. Colloq.
    There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. Farquhar.

Webster 1913