strap
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
strap/strap/
▶noun
- 1 a strip of leather, cloth, or other flexible material, used for fastening, securing, carrying, or holding on to.
- 2 a strip of metal, often hinged, used for fastening or securing.
- 3 (the strap) punishment by beating with a leather strap.
- 1 fasten or secure with a strap.
- 2 Brit. bind (an injured part of the body) with adhesive plaster.
- 3 beat with a leather strap.
- 4 (as adj. strapped) informal short of money: I'm constantly strapped for cash.
– derivatives
strapless adjective,
strappy adjective.
strapless adjective,
strappy adjective.
– origin C16 (denoting a trap for birds, also a piece of wood fastening two objects together): dial. form of strop1.
'strap' also found in these Oxford entries:
amaryllis
- baguette
- band
- bladderwrack
- breeching
- buckle
- canna
- chinstrap
- clutch bag
- crupper
- curb
- grab
- halter
- hobble
- jess
- jockstrap
- Kaffir lily
- kangaroo paw
- kicking strap
- lead
- ligule
- lore
- martingale
- Mary Jane
- nerine
- noseband
- pastern
- ray
- rein
- runner
- safety belt
- Sam Browne
- satchel
- scilla
- shoulder bag
- shoulder belt
- shoulder strap
- sling
- slingback
- slung shot
- spaghetti strap
- straphanger
- strip
- surcingle
- suspender
- throatlatch
- tumpline
- unstrap
- watch
