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Elastic straps that hold trousers up (usually used in the plural)
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suspender
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Word definitions for suspender in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suspender \Sus*pend"er\, n. One who, or that which, suspends; esp., one of a pair of straps or braces worn over the shoulders, for holding up the trousers.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Something or someone who suspends. 2 (context US English) An item of apparel consisting of a strap worn over the shoulder and used hold up trousers. Called braces in other parts of the world. 3 (context British English) An item of apparel used to hold ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES suspender belt COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE red ▪ When I visit Weiser he is wearing a loud yellow shirt flanked by red suspenders . ▪ For some reason that currently escapes me, several pairs of red suspenders ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. elastic straps that hold trousers up (usually used in the plural) [syn: brace , gallus ]
Usage examples of suspender.
Tearing myself away from the clouds which obviously had no school that day, I leapt to my feet, pulled my drumsticks out from under my suspenders, and loudly, emphatically, drummed out the time of the song.
His symptoms themselves developed symptoms, troughs and nodes he charted with morbid attention in the dumpster, in his suspenders and horrid tweed cap, clutching a shopping bag with his wig and coat and comely habilements he could neither wear nor pawn.
Armenian Foundation Library, right near the onion-domed Watertown Arsenal, Poor Tony Krause hunched forward in a stall in his ghastly suspenders and purloined cap, his elbows on his knees and his face in his hands, getting a whole new perspective on time and the various passages and personae of time.
There she was, sitting on the gate, smiling, her dress and slip breeze-lifted, nyloned legs shining, stocking-tops peeping with a glimpse of lacy suspender and thigh.
The match did not stay lit very long, but as the old man puffed on his pipe and the flame from the match got high and low, Rambo saw a tousled head of hair and a gristled face and the top half of a red-checkered shirt with suspenders over the shoulders.
He hooked his thumbs in his suspenders again, readopting his courtroom persona.
Swish, swish, swish: Susie lashed his bottom with her suspender belt, scoring the cheeks with sharp, reddening stripes.
He had thoughtfully removed his suit jacket and so his white shirt, neatly trisected by suspenders, stood out brilliantly among the cornstalks.
It was black, as was the whole ensemble, with underwired and lace-trimmed bust cups, a split crotch and suspenders.
Tearing myself away from the clouds which obviously had no school that day, I leapt to my feet, pulled my drumsticks out from under my suspenders, and loudly, emphatically, drummed out the time of the song.
The smallest ones were always as dressed up as their parents, with hair bows and suspenders and other geegaws Luke knew his parents would never buy.
Williams rose indignantly, shucked off his coat, hat, vest, suspenders and scarfpin, heaped them on the table, and then sat down and glared at the Reverend Mr.
He was a congeries of Eastern affectations: hair pomaded straight back, suspenders, lizardskin briefcase, bow tie, Porcellian Club cufflinks, clear-rimmed glasses, and a show-offy knowledge of French menus.
Uncle Buck was lying on the ground cussing and yelling and dragging at his pistol, and then all three of us were dragging and fighting over it, but the front sight was caught in his suspenders, and the three of us fighting over it, and Uncle Buck panting and cussing, and the sound of the galloping mare dying away.
He snapped back to semireality when a black fucker wearing a blue pinstriped shirt, suit trousers, and mellow-yellow suspenders answered the door.