Meaning

5 senses
  1. A large, strong, robust person (usually a man).

    a large and strong and heavyset man

  2. A person who works with straps, as on leather goods.

  3. One who straps horses; now, specifically, someone employed to attend and groom racehorses.

  4. A wire that joins two light switches so that a light can be turned off or on from either switch.

  5. (archaic)A cow which yields a small amount of milk.

Origin

From strap + -er, principally strap + -er (agent noun suffix). The sense referring to a po

From strap + -er, principally strap + -er (agent noun suffix). The sense referring to a poorly producing milk cow (from strap + -er) came from a dialectal sense of the verb strap as a troponym of milk: not even the most skilful milking action could coax enough milk from the udder.

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Forms

plural: strappers
Singularstrapper
Pluralstrappers

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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