strap
English
/stɹæp/
noun
Definitions
- A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.
- A strip of thick leather used in flogging.
- Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use.
- A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, used to hone the sharpened edge of a razor; a strop.
- A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass.
- (botany) The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
- (botany) The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.
- (slang) A gun, normally a personal firearm such as a pistol or machine pistol.
- (slang) Credit offered to a customer, especially for alcoholic drink.
- (journalism)
- (slang) A championship belt, or by extension, the title.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English strope inherited from Old English strop derived from Old French estrope (strap, loop on a harness) derived from Latin stroppus derived from Ancient Greek στρόφος (rope, twisted band, thong, cord).
Origin
Ancient Greek
στρόφος
Gloss
rope, twisted band, thong, cord
Concept
Semantic Field
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Kanji
索
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- back English
- backstrap English
- black English
- blackstrap English
- boot English
- bootstrap English
- bootstrappable English
- bootstrapper English
- breast English
- breaststrap English
- chin English
- chinstrap English
- choke English
- chokestrap English
- down English
- hang English
- hanger English
- jock English
- jockstrap English
- line English
- lip English
- lip-strap English
- neck English
- neckstrap English
- strapdown English
- straphang English
- straphanger English
- strapless English
- straplessness English
- straplike English
- strapline English
- straplined English
- strapper English
- strappies English
- strapple English
- strappy English
- strapwork English
- strapwort English
- understrap English
- understrapper English
- unstrap English
- watch English
- watchstrap English
- work English
- wort English
- wrist English
- wriststrap English
- stroppus Latin
- struppus Latin
- strupus Latin
- stroop Dutch, Flemish
- strop Dutch, Flemish
- stropdas Dutch, Flemish
- Στρόφιος Ancient Greek
- στρόφιον Ancient Greek
- στρόφος Ancient Greek
- ἄνθος Ancient Greek
- stropp Norwegian Bokmål
- ジョックストラップ Japanese
- ストラップ Japanese
- stropp Norwegian Nynorsk
- strop Old English
- strope Middle English
- strop Danish
- estrope Old French
- stroff Icelandic
- strop Middle Dutch
- strop Aromanian
- lip
- wort
- back
- down
- hang
- chin
- jock
- boot
- work
- line
- neck
- choke
- watch
- wrist
- black
- breast
- hanger
- strappy
- unstrap
- strapple
- strapper
- bootstrap
- strapwort
- backstrap
- lip-strap
- straphang
- strapdown
- strapless
- neckstrap
- straplike
- strapwork
- strappies
- strapline
- jockstrap
- chinstrap
- wriststrap
- understrap
- straplined
- watchstrap
- chokestrap
- blackstrap
- straphanger
- breaststrap
- bootstrapper
- understrapper
- straplessness
- bootstrappable