strapping young buck

From a 1976 speech by Ronald Reagan, who complained of "strapping young bucks" using public assistance to buy T-Bone steaks, the phrase is shorthand for "undeserving and lazy black people living off hardworking white taxpayers instead of getting a job." Many commentators have noted that the phrase originated from the auction block. Now used ironically by liberal commentators to identify racist dog-whistles in conservative argument.

"Whereas once the problem was just welfare queens and strapping young bucks, now it’s the entire middle and lower classes, the lazy union members, the credit card deadbeats, the unemployed so content with their benefits that they don’t look for work."

'We Are All Strapping Young Bucks Now'
Doug J. _Balloon Juice_ January 6, 2011

by Saxifrage2300 January 7, 2012

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strapping young lad

1. One who gains punani in a voracious way.

2. The New Flesh for all to hail.

1. "Why, I say; That fellow is quite the strapping young lad!"

"Quite indeed!"

"Rather."

"Surely."

2. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!"

or

"The kids come running for Satan's ice cream truck."

by Hungy August 3, 2004

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Strapping Young Lad

An extreme metal band made by the superhuman Devin Townsend, who also has an as epic solo band. Quite possibly the best band in existance.

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Strapping Young Lad is commonly referred to as the band from Heaven /and/ Hell.

by extreme metalhead July 11, 2011

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