strapper

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   dated or informal: an unusually large, strong, robust person

   The new farmhand was a strapper who could lift either end of the cart.

2. 2
   noun

   a worker who attends, grooms, and exercises racehorses

   The strapper walked the mare around the paddock before the race.

Formed from strap + the agent suffix -er. Alongside literal agents who work with straps, the word developed a colloquial use for a notably large, robust person and a specialized racing use for a groom who tends horses. The first sense is closely associated with the adjective strapping.

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