[ adj ] muscular and heavily built <adj.all> a beefy wrestlerhad a tall burly frame clothing sizes for husky boys a strapping boy of eighteen `buirdly' is a Scottish term
Strapping \Strap"ping\, a. Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. [Colloq.]
There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. --Farquhar.
Strap \Strap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Strapped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Strapping}.] 1. To beat or chastise with a strap.
2. To fasten or bind with a strap. --Cowper.
3. To sharpen by rubbing on a strap, or strop; as, to strap a razor.
JFK's son, John Jr., who saluted bravely as his father's coffin passed, is a strapping, handsome 28-year-old.
Since the early 1980s, wildlife biologists have been strapping transmitters weighing about 20 grams, or about as heavy as two quarters, on the backs of both juvenile and adult owls.
Since then, authorities have stopped feeding Bernt Murphy the powerful tranquilizers that hastened his transformation from a strapping youth to a stooped, palsied man who looks older than his 51 years.
In the distance, seven strapping youths from the local collective farm rowed a small boat towards them.
Willie Brown, for example, a strapping 16-year-old who used to play power forward for his high school basketball team, was the innocent victim of a street shooting.
Her's rented Piper Lance aircraft could carry six people but he apparently squeezed in an extra child by strapping two youths into one seat, said William Bruce, an investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board.
The formerly unbeaten Tucker stood a strapping 6-foot-5 to Tyson's 5-11, and had a 10-inch-longer reach.
Most carriers already allow infant seats to be used, giving the child free passage if an empty seat is available for strapping in the restraint.
The strapping rubber-faced Yeltsin is the best-known example.
Before strapping on a Sparks, Waidelich once had his pistol fall out of his holster while chasing a suspect.
The state says giving him the drug is simply a necessary step for carrying out a death sentence, a justifiable limitation on a condemned man's liberties much like strapping him into the electric chair.
While conceding that "anytime you put anything on an animal it doesn't help them survive," Meslow likened strapping the old transmitters on an owl to placing a six-pound backpack on an average-sized person.