Usually means: Attachment to a protective figure.
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  1. apron string: Merriam-Webster
  2. apron string: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. apron string: Vocabulary.com
  4. apron-string, apron string: Wordnik
  5. apron-string, apron string: Wiktionary
  6. Apron string, apron string: Dictionary.com
  7. Apron string: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. apron string: Rhymezone
  9. Apron string: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. apron string: FreeDictionary.org
  11. apron string: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. apron string: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. apron string: Merriam-Webster

(Note: See apron_strings as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (apron string)

noun:  One of the pair of strings or narrow sewn clothstrips used to fasten an apron around the wearer's waist.
noun:  (idiomatic, usually in the plural) A symbol of the domestic ties binding a male to a female (as a husband to a wife or a son to a mother).

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