strapping

"I used to work for a strapping start-up.

And by that, I mean that just strapping these things on does not suddenly make current mediocre games great.

You get to build a bat by strapping wings onto a rat, and you know how to build wings because you already did it for birds.

Weekends are filled with strapping the baby into a car seat and driving to the mall to get basic essentials.

"Either way, customers are strapping themselves in alongside the company for the ride.

"When it comes to products which use music genres, I think they serve best as boot-strapping discovery tools for people who don't know much about music.

"You are not going to be sent on that week-long training course on using Oracle or have your part-time MBA fully-funded while at that boot-strapping startup.

There is a world of difference between open heart surgery and uninvasively strapping something on the end of my arm.

I know 37 Signals advocate not strapping the VC bomb to your back but once you have, your options are limited and if Yahoo offer the best deal I guess you take it...

I walk up and leave in thirty seconds, most of which is spent putting on the helmet, readjusting the seat height, and strapping my bag to the bike basket; arrival is faster, maybe fifteen seconds.

You can go 10+ years without a big earth quake in CA, so people get lazy, stop strapping their hot water tanks to walls, stop nailing bookshelves against walls, etc...Also - not all buildings are earthquake proof - only modern ones.

Again from a systems-engineering point of view, the point where a launch vehicle design jumps the shark is where you're strapping together completely disparate types of rockets to get the desired effect.

I'm just saying that this sentence primed me to expect something an order of magnitude cooler, someone strapping 250 grams of aluminum-based rocket fuel to their acceptance letter and watching it blast off.