Strap

Definition: Strap

Strap

Noun

1. An elongated leather strip (or or strip of similar material) for binding things together or holding something in position.

2. Hanger consisting of a loop of leather suspended from the ceiling of a bus or train; passengers hold onto it.

3. A band that goes over the shoulder and supports a garment or bag.

4. Whip consisting of a strip of leather used in flogging.

Verb

1. Tie with a strap.

2. Beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced".

3. Sharpen with a strap; "strap a razor".

4. Secure with a strap; of sprained joints.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "strap" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Transportation

Electrical Engineering

Finance

Food & Agriculture

Mechanical Engineering

Mining

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Strap

Connection

Fastener, fastening, tie; ligament, ligature; strap; tackle, rigging; standing rigging, running rigging; traces, harness; yoke; band ribband, bandage; brace, roller, fillet; inkle; with, withe, withy; thong, braid; girder, tiebeam; girth, girdle, cestus, garter, halter, noose, lasso, surcingle, knot, running knot; cabestro, cinch, lariat, legadero, oxreim; suspenders.

Junction

Attach, fix, affix, saddle on, fasten, bind, secure, clinch, twist, make fast; Adjective: tie, pinion, string, strap, sew, lace, tat, tack, knit, button, buckle, hitch, lash, truss, bandage, braid, splice, swathe, gird, tether, moor, picket, harness, chain; fetter; (restrain); lock, latch, belay, brace, hook, grapple, leash, couple, accouple, link, yoke, bracket; marry; (wed); bridge over, span.

Punishment

Strike; deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite; slap, slap the face; smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge, buffet; thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor; lace, lace one's jacket; dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue; beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly; give a black eye.

Scourge

Whip, bullwhip, lash, strap, thong, cowhide, knout; cat, cat o'nine tails; rope's end.

Crosswords: Strap

Manx (line, sling, string).

Strap, God wants you on the court (Hoosiers; writing credit: Angelo Pizzo)

I just think it's rather odd that a nation that prides itself on its virility should feel compelled to strap on forty pounds of protective gear just in order to play rugby (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

The night my strap broke (Where the Boys Are; writing credit: Glendon Swarthout; George Wells)

It was three kids fighting over a strap to hold onto (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear)

Tie me down, tell me lies, pull my hair, slap my thighs with a big wet strap of, Rawhide (City Slickers; writing credit: Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel)

And strap your hands across my engines ("Born to Run"; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

Never leave the house without their strap (That's What I'm Looking For; performing artist: Da Brat)

So sit back, relax, and strap on your seatbelt (Nuthin But A "G" Thang; performing artist: Dr. Dre)

I had to tie you down and strap on you inhaler (Lunatic To Love; performing artist: The Residents)

I was schooled with a strap right across my back, (JUMPING JACK FLASH; performing artist: The Rolling Stones)

A knapsack strap. (references; author: unknown)

What time does the wristwatch strap shop shut? (references; author: unknown)

To Taste the Strap (1991)

Black Strap Molassas (performing artist: Jimmy Durante)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Compact Shoulder Strap Bible Our Compact Bible Now Made Portable (reference)

• Complete Systems: Includes Binder, System Essentials and Detatchable Shoulder Strap; With Slim Outside Pocket (Compact Women's) (reference)

• Microfiber Black with Shoulder Strap Lrg (reference)

• Rip-Stop Nylon Black With Shoulder Strap Med (reference)

• Strap on Your Spurs: Technology & Change Cowboy Style (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• The Boy With the Arab Strap (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• COBY CX-7 Yellow MINI AM/FM POCKET RADIO with NECK STRAP (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Bessey VAS23 Vario Angle Strap Clamp (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

This version of the Ped-O-Jet has a strap that holds vaccine bottle in place keeping the bottle from working loose during operations. Prior to this model, clamps were the only way the bottle was held in place. Credit: CDC.

Bearing the Pilot's six-spoke steering wheel. This strap was worn during the Civil War by Navy Pilot Alfred Marshall, who served in the Mississippi Squadron. Credit: NAVY.

Probably photographed while he was Commanding Officer of USS Pensacola (CA-24), circa 1940-41. Note the white strap on his binoculars. Credit: NAVY.

Strap hangers of the future. Credit: Library of Congress.

Oranges 17. Putting cover on orange crates and nailing steel strap over center. Lamanda Park, Calif. Credit: Library of Congress.

Full page of advertisements and cartoon, "A new application of the Rarey System", showing James Buchanan holding strap "coercion" and kicking horse "Miss South Carolina". Credit: Library of Congress.

Cartoon showing Ulysses S. Grant, as an acrobat, on trapeze "third term," holding on to "whiskey ring" and "Navy ring," with strap "corruption" in his mouth, holding up other acrobats, Shepard, George M. Robeson, William W. Belknap, Murphy, Williams, and. Credit: Library of Congress.

National Aeronautic Association of the United States of America. Leather strap with buckle fastening. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

And then, to harness himself like a bully, and to strap himself up like a flirt, to wear a corset under a cuirass, is to be ridiculous twice over

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

Ballooning shapes, layered skirts, knee-length hemlines, sarongs and wrap skirts, apron-style skirts, bias cut skirts, long drawstring skirts, post-war new look wide, fluid and airy skirts, long skirts with a detachable pocket strap. (references)

Human Rights

Saudi Arabia

Persons convicted of political or religious crimes reportedly were flogged with a leather strap. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "strap": anchor strap ♦ carrying strap ♦ cast on strap ♦ central American strap fern ♦ chin strap ♦ clamp strap ♦ Eccentric strap ♦ Florida strap fern ♦ kicking strap ♦ knee strap ♦ leather strap ♦ lifting strap ♦ razor strap ♦ shoulder strap ♦ stirrup strap ♦ strap bolt ♦ strap down ♦ strap fern ♦ strap hanger ♦ strap head ♦ strap hinge ♦ strap in ♦ strap iron ♦ strap on ♦ strap on tin ♦ strap rail ♦ strap up ♦ strap work. Additional references.

Beginning with "strap": strap-button, strap-cum-aerial, strap-end, strap-ends, strap-hang, strap-hangers, strap-hanging, strap-iron, strap-like, strap-line, strap-oil, strap-on, strap-on-dildo, Strap-shaped, strap-watch, strap-wire, strap-work.

Ending with "strap": ankle-strap, boot-strap, buckle-and-strap, carrying-strap, chin-strap, Choke-strap, cross-strap, elongated-labial-sticker-on-guitar-strap, jock-strap, leather-strap, neck-strap, razor-strap, saddle-strap, shoulder-strap, watch-strap.

Containing "strap": ankle-strap shoes.

Albanian

shirit (band, bandage, bar, braid, cleat, colors, colours, edging, fillet, ribbon, sash, scarf, stria, stripe, Taenia, tape, tapeworm), tirantë, rrip pantallonash, rrip ore (watchband, wristband), rrip berberi, rrip (band, bandeau, belt, cincture, cleat, girdle, leash, riband, ribbon, slat, spline, streak, strip, tape, thong, trace, waist belt), qafore (collar, shirtband), mpreh me rrip, lidh me rrip (band, belt, fillet, tape), këpucë me rrip, copë pëlhure, aski (suspenders). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حزم (bind, bunch, bundle, decide, determination, dogmatise, firmness, hardness, packing, parcel, resolution, rope, sheaf, sling, stack, truss), ‏حزام (band, belly-band, belt, girdle, girth, sash, waistband, webbing, zone), ‏سوار (bangle, bracelet), ‏طوق (band, be hemmed in, belt, besiege, cincture, circle, circumvent, clip, collar, compass, corral, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, enfold, entrench, envelop, fret, gird, girdle, hedge, hem, hoop, impale, inclose, include, invest, outflank, ring, round, surround, take off, zone), ‏جلد بالسوط (flick, lash, sting), ‏ربط (attach, attachment, bind, connect, couple, faster, hitch, interface, involve, join, knit, knitting, lash, lash down, ligature, link, moor, relate, rope, secure, set, slur, swaddle, tether, tying, unite), ‏شحذ الموس, ‏شد بحزام. (various references)

Bulgarian 

спирачна лента, ремък (band, belt, brace, cinch, lanyard, thong), каишка (lead), каиш (thong, waist belt), връзвам (bind, lash, tie, tie up), лента (band, bar, decoration, riband, ribbon, string, strip, tape), бия с каиш, пристягам с ремък, пристягам с каиш, подпорна планка, ивица лейкопласт, ивица (band, border, edging, fillet, hem, list, slip, streak, stria). (various references)

Chinese 

皮帶 (leather belt), 皮带 (thong), 抽打 . (various references)

Czech

popruh (belt, girth), připoutat (fasten), připevnit (affix, attach, belay, brace, fasten, fix, Mount, pin, pin down, tag, tail), pásek (belt), mrskat řemenem, držadlo (grip, handle, holder, shaft), řemen (band, belt, thong), řemínek (lash, leash, tie). (various references)

Danish

strop (bail clamp, bride, cargo sling, cross strap, harness, ornamental link, sling, strop, tie-bar), stoevlestrop, staalbaand (band, hoop, sheet, steel rolled strip, steel strip, steelband, strip, strip steel), spændebånd (tightening band), spændbånd, sele (belt, harness, safety belt, seat belt, webbing), rem (bearer, inferior purlin, rem, wall plate), lige spændejern (clamp strap, flat clamp), gummitov, gjord (webbing), baelte (belt, webbing), baandjern (band, hoop, sheet, steel strip, steelband, strip, strip steel). (various references)

Dutch

riem (belt, girdle, oar, zone). (various references)

Esperanto

rimeno. (various references)

Faeroese

reim (belt, zone). (various references)

Farsi 

فیش , کشیدن (Chart, Drag, Draw, Drawl, Entrain, Experience, Figure, Hale, Haul, Heave, Lave, Lengthen, Peg, Pluck, Pull, Strain, String, Suffer, Trace, Trawl, Weigh), تازیانه زنی , بندچرمی (Belt, Leather), باتسمه اویختن , باتسمه بستن باتسمه نگاهداشتن . (various references)

Finnish

raksi (sling, tag), hihna (band, belt, sling, thong). (various references)

French

courroie, sangle (strap (for carrying)), lanière. (various references)

German

Riemen (band, belt, leather shoelace, oar, prick, shoulder strap, sling, straps, thong, thongs), gurt (belt, girder, girdle, girth), Streifen (binding, braid, brush, brush against, brush past, film, graze, kiss, line, panel, pink, prowl, range, rasher, ray, roam, roam about, scrape, shave, streak, strip, stripe, tab, tape, tape back, tape down, tape up, thread, to streak, to stripe, touch, touch lightly, touch upon, wander, wrapper), schnallen (buckle, buckles, catch on to, click on, fasten), Band (assembly line, band, belt, bond, cement, connection, conveyor belt, frequency band, group, hoop, lace, league, ligament, ligated, line, reel, ribbon, string, stripe, tape, tie, track, volume, wavelength). (various references)

Greek 

ιμάντας (belt). (various references)

Hebrew 

תרסית (lace), שנץ (cord, lace, latch, ligature, rib, string), רצועה (band, belt, knout, lash, ligament, list, ribbon, streak, swivel, tape). (various references)

Hungarian

szíj (belt, chafing-mat, thong), pánt (band, bar, batten, brace), vállszíj (rifle-sling, Sam Browne belt, shoulder belt, shoulder strap, sling), váll-lap (epaulet, epaulette, scale, shoulder mark), ragtapasz (adhesive bandage, adhesive patch, adhesive plaster, medical tape, sticking plaster), kapocs (brace, buckle, chape, clasp, clench, clip, fastener, hasp, hook and eye, link, locket, snap, staple), heveder (band, belt, belting, bracer, cartridge belt, chafing-mat, girth, harness, sling). (various references)

Indonesian

pembandut, ambin (sling). (various references)

Italian

cinghia (belt), correggia (webbing), cinturino (watchstrap). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

緒 (cord, thong), 紐革 (thong), 吊り革 , ストックホルム症候群 (stock point, Stockhom syndrome, stomach, stop, stop bit, stop motion, stoplight, stopper, stopwatch, straight, straight course, straight perm, straight permanent wave, straight punch, strategy, streaker, streaking, stream, streamer, street, street angel, street furniture, street girl, streetcar, streetwalker, streptomycin, stress, stretch, stretching, stride, strike, strike zone, striker, string, strings, strip, strip girl, strip mill, strip show, stripe, stripper, striptease, structure). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

お (at, cord, drawing, figure, illustration, in, on, picture, ridge, tail, thong), ひもかわ (thong), つりかわ (astrap), ストラップ . (various references)

Korean 

결박. (various references)

Manx

yeealley (beat, lash, whip), yeeall (tie, tie of shoe), sthrappal, sthrap, cryss (belt, inkle, sash, zone). (various references)

Pig Latin

apstray.(various references)

Portuguese

correia (belt, laniard, lanyard, leash, thong, whang), cinta (belt, brace, cincture, corset, girdle, hoop, middle, ring, sash, truss, waist, waistband, waistline, wrapper, zone). (various references)

Romanian

scoabã (bracer, chisel, clamp, clasp, clench, clincher, clip, cramp, crampon, dog, Gib, gouge, link, staple, yoke), ureche (audition, ear, eye, handle, hearing, loop), gaicã, cureluşã (wristlet), curea (belt, girdle, lanyard, leash, leather, sling, thong), cordon (belt, cord, cordon, girdle, rim, string), chingã (girth, thong), baretã (barret), bandã (band, binder, bunch, clique, cushion, gang, pack, parcel, ribbon, ring, rout, set, strip, tape, troop), baierã (band, string). (various references)

Russian 

скреплять ремнями, скоба (clamp, clevis, clip, cramp, holdfast, hook, rim, shackle, staple, yoke), связывать полоса, ремень (belt, leather, sling, thong), хомут (collar, horse collar, horse-collar, loop, neck yoke, neck-yoke, yoke), накладка (onlay, patch), лямка (shoulder strap), бугель (loop, loop line, yoke), бить ремнем, прижимная планка, полоска (band, facia, fascia, streak, stria), планка (batten, crossbar, flitch, lath, planch, plank, slat, strip). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tući kaišem, travni zalistak, remen (belt, shoulder strap), privezati kaišem, kaiš (belt, safety-strip, skiver), bretela. (various references)

Spanish

correa (band, belt, lead, leash, purlin, thong, trace). (various references)

Swedish

slejf, rem (belt, girdle, lead, zone), spänna fast (clamp). (various references)

Turkish

sarmak (bandage, begird, beset, bind, bundle, cincture, clothe, coat, cocoon, coil, coil up, compass, do up, embrace, encircle, enclasp, encompass, enfold, enlace, entwine, entwist, envelop, enwrap, fold, fold up, furl, gird, hem about, hem around, hem in, infold, intwine, invest, involve, lap, overgrow, pack, reel, reel up, robe, roll, roll up, sheet, smother in, stalk, surround, swaddle, swathe, tuck in, tuck up, twine, twist, whirl, wind, wind up, wrap, wrap up), tasma (collar, collet), kemerle dövme, kemer (arch, archway, band, belt, cincture, cove, cummerbund, fascia, girdle, vaulting, waistband, zone), kayışla dövmek (leather), kayışla bilemek, kayışla bağlamak, kayış (band, belt, slide, sliding, slip, slipping, strop), kütikül (cuticle), bantlamak (band, fillet, tape), bant (band, binding, braid, court plaster, cushion, fascia, fillet, recording, ribbon, scotch tape, strapping, strip, tape, welt), bağlama bileziği, şerit (band, braid, cord, fascia, fillet, gut, lace, riband, ribbon, roadway, spline, strip, stripe, tab, tape, tapeworm, traffic lane, welt). (various references)

Turkmen 

kemer. (various references)

Ukrainian

стягувати ременем, скріпляти скобою (cramp), смужка тканини, ремінь (band, belt, strop, thong), штрипка, зв'язувати (apply, band, bind up, brace, cement, concatenate, couple, fasten, join, knit together, tie, tie down, tie up), зав'язка (tieback, tier). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lụa. (various references)

dur. (various references)

strophos. (various references)

habenae, habenas, loramentum, stroppus. (various references)

estrop. (various references)

strippe. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "strap": straphang, straphanger, straphangers, straphanging, straphangs, straphung, strapless, straplesses, strappado, strappadoes, strappados, strapped, strapper, strappers, strapping, strappings, straps. (additional references)

Words ending with "strap": bootstrap, jockstrap, unstrap. (additional references)

Words containing "strap": bootstrapped, bootstrapping, bootstraps, jockstraps, understrapper, understrappers, unstrapped, unstrapping, unstraps. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Strap" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atrap, istap, Ostra, sarap, serap, serpa, setrip, srap, srep, stap, starp, Starpro, steap, Sterpa, sterup, stiap, stra, strag, stran, strapp, streep, strep, strepp, strimp, sttrep, swrap. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: parts, prats, sprat, tarps, traps.

-1 letter: arts, pars, part, past, pats, prat, raps, rapt, rasp, rats, spar, spat, star, taps, tarp, tars, trap, tsar.

-2 letters: apt, ars, art, asp, par, pas, pat, rap, ras, rat, sap, sat, spa, tap, tar, tas.

-3 letters: ar, as, at, pa, ta.

+1 letter: paster, pastor, pastry, paters, prates, rapist, repast, satrap, sprats, straps, tapers, tapirs, tramps, trapes.

+2 letters: airpost, armpits, arpents, captors, carpets, departs, dispart, entraps, esparto, harpist, imparts, mispart, palters, parents, pargets, parrots, partans, parties, partons, pastern, pasters, pastier, pastors, pasture, patrols, patrons, patters, patzers, persalt, petards, piaster, piastre, pirates, plaster, platers, portals, postwar, praters, preacts, precast, proteas, psalter, psaltry, ragtops, rapists, raptors, repasts, repeats, restamp, retapes, satraps, satrapy, seaport, sparest, spartan, spatter, spectra, spirant, stamper, stapler, startup, subpart, tampers, tappers, tapster, tarpans, tarpons, tephras, threaps, traipse, trapans, trepans, unstrap, updarts, uprates, upstair, upstare, upstart, uptears.