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strap I. \ˈstrap\ noun (-s) Usage: often attributive Etymology: alteration of strop band or loop of leather or rope or metal, from Middle English, band or loop of leather or rope, from Old English, thong for securing an oar; akin to Middle Low German & Middle Dutch strop strap, Middle High German strupfe; all from a prehistoric Germanic word borrowed from Latin struppus, stroppus band, thong, strap, from Greek strophos twisted band, cord — more at strophe 1. a. : a band, plate, or loop of metal for binding objects together or for clamping an object in position; also : a flexible thin flat strip of metal fastened around a box, crate, bale, or bundle for security b. : a projecting metal tang especially when used for attaching or connecting c. : metal strips, posts, or rods used for support or reinforcement d. : a thin flat section of conducting material (as copper) forming part of an electrical connection e. : a flat piece of lead in a storage battery to which the plates of a group are connected 2. a. : a piece of rope or metal passing around a block or deadeye holding it together and used for fastening it to something — called also strop b. : a rope with its ends spliced together used especially in slinging weights; also : a short cable with an eye at each end 3. : a narrow usually flat strip or thong of a flexible material and especially leather used variously (as for securing, holding together, or wrapping): as a. : a strip of leather, cloth, or webbing fitted with a clasp or buckle for adjustment and used for fastening, securing, or holding together b. : something made of a strap, a part of one, or of a combination of two or more forming a loop < a carriage strap > < a strap in a bus > c. : a band (as of adhesive plaster) used to approximate edges (as of a wound) or to hold a dressing in position d. : a strip of leather used for flogging; also : the use of a strap for inflicting punishment < a little boy who has been out later than he should and who is afraid … of getting his father's strap — Vernon Jarratt > e. : a piece of leather or strip of wood covered with a suitable material for sharpening a razor : strop f. : belt 2 g. : shoulder strap h. : a flexible strap or belt (as of cloth to which an abrasive is glued and which runs over pulleys or over a pulley and a rod or plate) used for buffing i. : any of several wide leather strips cut and fitted to blankbook backbones and extending upon the boards between bands j. : a band or fillet used in strapwork k. : a flattened strip of cable (as connected to an automobile storage battery) l. : a strip of paper used to bind a bundle of paper currency 4. or strap shoe : a shoe fastened with a usually buckled strap 5. Britain : credit 6. Irish a. : a forward impudent girl or woman : hussy b. : harlot II. verb (strapped ; strapped ; strapping ; straps) transitive verb 1. a. (1) : to secure with or attach by means of a strap < strapping mail in bundles — U.S. Post Office Manual > < strapped to the pulpit is a curious wooden megaphone — Charles Gordon > < strap on an oxygen tank — Stuart Chase > (2) : to bind (as a sprained joint or painful muscles) with overlapping strips of adhesive plaster (3) : to constrict as if by a strap < his khaki bush shirt strapped him as though it were made with stays — Joseph Hitrec > < a decent man strapped by dogma — New Republic > b. : to fit, furnish, or equip with a strap < strap a book > < strap the deadeye > 2. : to beat or punish with a strap < would not strap his pupils — H.S.Canby > 3. : strop 4. : to cause to suffer from an extreme scarcity < strapped its people to keep up the arms race — Atlantic > < financially strapped due to the depression — Jerome Ellison > 5. : to rub down (a horse) : groom intransitive verb Britain : to busy oneself : apply oneself actively or energetically : buckle down |