strapping

verb

1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of strap

adjective more strapping · most strapping

1. 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.
2. obsolete (of a young woman) full of vigor; lusty.

Similar: 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 · Opposite: feeble, frail, obese, puny, scrawny, weak

noun strappings

1. countable, uncountable 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.
2. countable, uncountable A length of narrow material to be used for straps, or straps collectively.
3. countable, uncountable A beating with a strap.
4. countable, uncountable The act of fastening with a strap.