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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.
ZEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE--

Strapping Young Lad is commonly referred to as the band from Heaven /and/ Hell.
by extreme metalhead July 11, 2011
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Strapping Young Buck

A young, good-looking, and rather hot example of the male species who appears before the eyes of a lustful older woman.
Boss: "Why are you late?"
Cougar: "I got derailed by a strapping young buck."
Boss: "With antlers and everything?"
by MadamexXx March 10, 2009
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strappingly

adverb used to describe a man who is well-built, strong or lean and muscular.
It's the strappingly handsome and charming whosis coming this way on his motorcycle.
by Ekans August 22, 2008
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stapling your own hand

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strapping

To wear a concealed weapon attached to your leg or thigh by a strap or strap(s).
I hear that Vlad is strapping for that fight after school today.
by Ypfaction February 18, 2010
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