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strapping
noun 4adj 2
Collocations
3ADJ.
battered, heavy, left, young
STRAPPING + NOUN
browde, decades, front, man, men
PREP.
in, on
Definitions
adj
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.
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.
2
Of a young woman: full of vigor; lusty.
noun
1
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
A length of narrow material to be used for straps, or straps collectively.
3
A beating with a strap.
4
The act of fastening with a strap.
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Idioms & Phrases
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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, curlin
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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.
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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 T
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He's a strapping young man.
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Tom is a strapping young man.
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He is a strapping man.
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