Strap

Quick meaning: Strap is a noun meaning A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.

Meaning

A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.

More Meanings

1. A strip of thick leather used in flogging.
2. Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use.
3. A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, used to hone the sharpened edge of a razor; a strop.
4. A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass.
5. (botany) The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
6. (botany) The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.
7. (slang) A gun, normally a personal firearm such as a pistol or machine pistol.

Example Sentences

Hide the straps.

Had to pull a strap on a fool named Louis the Third / 'Cause I'm getting chased by the ghetto bird

a lively cobbler, that […] had scarce passed a day in his life without giving her [his wife] the discipline of the strap.

The patter of feet, and clatter of strap and swivel, seemed to swell into a bewildering din, but they were almost upon the fielato offices, where the carretera entered the town, before a rifle flashed.

Word Forms

• straps
• strop
• strope
• strapping
• strapped

Synonyms for strap

Depending on context, synonyms include strapline, trounce, lash, whip, flog, slash.

Antonyms for strap

Common opposites include unstrap.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include whip, lash, slash, flog, lather, welt.

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