strapped
adjective
[ strapt ]
• short of money.
• "I'm constantly strapped for cash"
strap
verb
• fasten or secure in a specified place or position with a strap.
• "I had to strap the bag to my bicycle"
• beat (someone) with a strip of leather.
• "I expected when my dad walked in that he'd strap him"
Similar:
beat,
flog,
whip,
leather,
belt,
thrash,
lash,
horsewhip,
birch,
cane,
strike,
hit,
clout,
wallop,
whack,
tan someone's hide,
give someone a (good) hiding,
lather,
larrup,
whale,
stripe,
thong,
Origin:
late 16th century (denoting a trap for birds, also a piece of timber fastening two objects together): dialect form of strop1.
