What's the difference between strapper and stripper?

Strapper


Definition:

  • (n.) One who uses strap.
  • (n.) A person or thing of uncommon size.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Another brother, Steve, who has Down’s Sydnrome, is employed by Weir as a strapper in his stables.

Stripper


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Surgical removal was avoided without complications by detaching it with a ring stripper.
  • (2) He gets Lyme disease , he dates indie girls and strippers; he lives in disused warehouses and crappy flats with weirded-out flatmates who want to set him on fire and buy the petrol to do so.
  • (3) So far the Republican primary has spoiled us, from Rick Perry's "oops" to corporate asset-stripper Mitt Romney's admission that he liked firing people, delivered just before he was snapped apparently receiving a sit-down shoe-shine from an underling – not a good look for a would-be man of the people.
  • (4) "I started chanting when I was living on Hollywood Boulevard, working as a stripper.
  • (5) So, in Closer, 2004's sexually charged chamber piece in which four beautiful people (Portman, Julia Roberts, Jude Law and Clive Owen) fall in and out of love and lust, she asked Nichols, the director, to remove scenes in which her character - a pink-haired stripper - gets her kit off.
  • (6) Paper Gods comes wrapped in a collage that includes the Patrick Nagel lips from the Rio sleeve , cut-outs of a sumo wrestler, a champagne glass and a silhouette of a stripper to represent the Girls on Film video, and a tiger (albeit a non-ragged one).
  • (7) The fascia stripper, therefore, needs to be directed along an imaginary line from the lateral tibial condyle to the iliac crest to obtain the strongest fascia lata and avoid transecting the longitudinal fibers.
  • (8) Its most enthusiastic supporter was the coup plotter James Goldsmith, one of the most unscrupulous asset strippers of that time.
  • (9) There is described an easy and rapid technique using the Mayo Vein Stripper to facilitate safe harvesting of the long saphenous vein for vascular reconstruction.
  • (10) John Worboys, a 51-year-old former stripper from Rotherhithe, south-east London, raped at least one of his passengers and sexually assaulted seven others.
  • (11) No, not Ed Miliband's latest Labour party slogan, but the motto of Johnny Anglais , fitness expert and stripper extraordinaire; I found it on his website, just beneath what seems to be his personal crest.
  • (12) Wearing a stripper’s bikini and a see-through plastic mac, Zhora is murdered in a soft-porn, slow-motion spectacle, played out to sad music; but is sadness for her what we feel?
  • (13) Since the incident in Colombia, there have been several media reports of similar secret service misconduct in the past, including allegations that officers hired strippers and prostitutes during a presidential trip to El Salvador last year.
  • (14) "You have stated that you will continue to advocate the morality and acceptability of your involvement in the adult industry and argue that it should not be inappropriate for a teacher to work as a stripper or in pornographic films.
  • (15) I met them, again, at the filming of another Baillie Walsh video for Be Thankful for What You've Got , which consisted of a stripper doing her act while miming the song in Raymond's Revue Bar in Soho, London.
  • (16) If one attempts to obtain fascia lata by directing a fascia stripper along an imaginary line directed from the head of the fibula to the anterior iliac spine, as suggested in most textbooks, an inadequate specimen may be obtained.
  • (17) Barbara Ellen is an Observer columnist Teacher Benedict Garrett was suspended in July 2010, after being discovered working as a stripper, naked butler and porn actor.
  • (18) Inflow was restored by performing a graft limb thrombectomy using a Fogarty balloon catheter and simultaneously employing an endarterectomy ring stripper to dislodge tenaciously adherent fibrinous material and thrombotic plug.
  • (19) You know how many times I’d get a call from girlfriends saying, ‘I just got kicked out of a camp, come pick me up?’” In the US press, the gender imbalance in Williston initially attracted as much attention as the population boom, with apocryphal tales of strippers earning $2,500 a night in tips (though the $500 per night reputed to be more accurate is nothing to sniff at).
  • (20) It comes as no surprise then, that when the shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, turned up to join the bus in North Warwickshire on a recent day in the campaign – bearing cupcakes, of course – he was greeted with the whoops and laughter normally reserved for a stripper.

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