strapping

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

strapping
    adj 1: muscular and heavily built; "a beefy wrestler"; "had a
           tall burly frame"; "clothing sizes for husky boys"; "a
           strapping boy of eighteen"; "`buirdly' is a Scottish
           term" [syn: {beefy}, {burly}, {husky}, {strapping},
           {buirdly}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Strap \Strap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Strapped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Strapping}.]
   1. To beat or chastise with a strap.
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   2. To fasten or bind with a strap. --Cowper.
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   3. To sharpen by rubbing on a strap, or strop; as, to strap a
      razor.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Strapping \Strap"ping\, a.
   Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. [Colloq.]
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         There are five and thirty strapping officers gone.
                                                  --Farquhar.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

112 Moby Thesaurus words for "strapping":
      adipose, bastinado, basting, battery, beating, beefy, belting,
      big-bellied, bloated, blowzy, bosomy, bouncing, brawny, buffeting,
      burly, buxom, caning, chubby, chunky, clubbing,
      corporal punishment, corpulent, cowhiding, cudgeling, distended,
      doughty, drubbing, dumpy, fat, fattish, flagellation, flailing,
      fleshy, flogging, forceful, forcible, forcy, full, full-blooded,
      full-strength, fustigation, gross, gutsy, gutty, hale, hard,
      hard as nails, hardy, hearty, heavyset, hefty, hippy,
      horsewhipping, husky, imposing, iron-hard, lacing, lashing, lusty,
      meaty, mighty, nervy, obese, obstinate, overweight, paunchy,
      pistol-whipping, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied, potent,
      powerful, pudgy, puffy, puissant, pursy, rawhiding, red-blooded,
      robust, robustious, roly-poly, rotund, rugged, scourging, spanking,
      square, squat, squatty, stalwart, steely, stocky, stout, stripes,
      strong, strong as brandy, strong as strong, strong-willed, sturdy,
      swingeing, switching, swollen, thick-bodied, thickset, thrashing,
      top-heavy, trouncing, truncheoning, tubby, vigorous, well-fed,
      whipping