strut

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
strut/strʌt/

▶noun

• 1 a bar forming part of a framework and designed to resist compression.

• 2 a strutting gait.

▶verb (struts, strutting, strutted)

• 1 walk with a stiff, erect, and conceited gait.

• 2 brace with a strut or struts.

– phrases
strut one's stuff informal dance or behave in a confident and expressive way.

– derivatives
strutter noun,
strutting adjective,
struttingly adverb.

– origin OE strūtian ‘protrude stiffly’, of Gmc origin.