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From a variant of earlier strope (“loop on a harness”), from Middle English strope, stroppe, from Late Old English strop, stropp (“a band, thong, strap; oar-thong”) and Old French estrope (“strap, loop on a harness”), both from Latin stroppus, struppus (“strap”), from Ancient Greek στρόφος (stróphos, “rope”) (compare strophe), from στρέφω (stréphō, “to twist”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *strebʰ- (compare Proto-West Germanic *stroppōn (“to twist, writhe”)). Cognate with Scots strap, strop (“strap, band, thong”), Dutch strop (“noose, strop, loop”), Low German Strop (“strap”), German Struppe, Strüppe, Strippe (“string, cord”), Danish strop (“strap”), Swedish stropp (“strap, loop”).

strap (countable and uncountable, plural straps)

  1. A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.
    • 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 7, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
      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.
    1. A strap worn on the shoulder.
  2. A strip of thick leather used in flogging.
  3. Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  4. A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, used to hone the sharpened edge of a razor; a strop.
  5. A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass.
    1. (carpentry, machinery) A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.
    2. (nautical) A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.
  6. (botany) The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
  7. (botany) The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.
  8. (slang) A gun, normally a personal firearm such as a pistol or machine pistol.
    • 1993 December 7, Ice Cube, “Ghetto Bird”, in Lethal Injection, track 3:
      Had to pull a strap on a fool named Louis the Third / 'Cause I'm getting chased by the ghetto bird
  9. (slang, uncountable, archaic) Credit offered to a customer, especially for alcoholic drink.
  10. (slang, LGBTQ) A strap-on.
  1. (journalism) Synonym of strapline.
  2. (slang, professional wrestling, with "the") A championship belt, or by extension, the title.
  1. (finance) An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with one put and two call options on the same security at the same strike price, similar to but more bullish than a straddle.

a long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like

something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use

strap (third-person singular simple present straps, present participle strapping, simple past and past participle strapped)

  1. (transitive) To beat or chastise with a strap; to whip, to lash.
  2. (transitive) To fasten or bind with a strap.
  3. (transitive) To sharpen by rubbing on a strap; to strop.
    to strap a razor
  4. (transitive) To slap or stroke the muscled areas of a horse with a cloth or pad, a form of massage meant to improve muscle tone.

beat or chastise with a strap; to whip, to lash

fasten or bind with a strap

sharpen by rubbing on a strap, or strop; as, to strap a razor

strap

  1. second-person singular imperative of strapić

Borrowed from English strap.

strap f or m (plural strapiau, diminutive strapen, not mutable)

  1. strap
    Synonyms: band, stribed, belt