Definitions for strapped

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Spelling: [strapt]

IPA: /stræpt/

Strapped is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 383 anagrams from letters in strapped (adepprst).

Definitions for strapped

adjective

1. needy; wanting:

noun

1. a narrow strip of flexible material, especially leather, as for fastening or holding things together.
2. a looped band by which an item may be held, pulled, lifted, etc., as a bootstrap or a ring that standing passengers may hold on to in a bus, subway, or the like.
3. a strop for a razor.
4. a long, narrow object or piece of something; strip; band.
5. an ornamental strip or band.
6. shoulder strap.
7. watchband.
8. Machinery. a shallow metal fitting surrounding and retaining other parts, as on the end of a rod.
9. Nautical, Machinery. strop (def 2).

verb (used with object)

1. to fasten or secure with a strap or straps.
2. to fasten (a thing) around something in the manner of a strap.
3. to sharpen on a strap or strop:
4. to beat or flog with a strap.

Origin of strapped

First recorded in 1775-85; strap + -ed²

Examples for strapped

Our chaplain took it from him and had it strapped to his saddle-bag.

Overcrowded and strapped for workers, there was not a single medical facility that could take her.

Her books she had strapped to the saddle-horn; there was a yellow slicker at the cantle.

A burly Belgian, strapped with grenades and ammunition, towered above them.

Leaving the horse to run steadily on the road he strapped himself with the gun.

strapped for medical staff and lacking in the resources needed to treat the 5,338 suspected cases, the numbers are soaring.

This she strapped down so tightly that, for the time at least, the bleeding was staunched.

However, the Air Force is so strapped for people that the ratio has dropped below even that reduced level.

They threw off their bags of crops and strapped him to the back.

Smithy climbed into the rear cockpit and strapped himself in.