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strapper

The English word “strapper” has 5 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A large, strong, robust person (usually a 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 cow which yields a small amount of milk.
  5. A wire that joins two light switches so that a light can be turned off or on from either switch.

Etymology

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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