Usually means: Band used to secure items.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word strap:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. strap: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. strap, the strap: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. strap: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. strap, the strap: Collins English Dictionary
  5. strap: Vocabulary.com
  6. Strap, strap: Wordnik
  7. strap: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. strap: Wiktionary
  9. strap: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. strap: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. strap: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. strap: Dictionary.com
  13. strap: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. strap: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. STRAP, Strap (disambiguation), Strap: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Strap: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. strap: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. strap: Rhymezone
  19. strap: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. strap: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. strap: Free Dictionary
  22. strap: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. strap: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Derivatives (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Strap: bizterms.net
  4. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  5. Strap: Investopedia
  6. strap: Legal dictionary
  7. Strap: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. strap: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. strap: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. STRAP: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. strap: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. strap, strap, strap, strap, strap, strap, strap, strap: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See straping as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.
noun:  A strap worn on the shoulder.
noun:  A strip of thick leather used in flogging.
noun:  Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use.
noun:  A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, used to hone the sharpened edge of a razor; a strop.
noun:  A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass.
noun:  (carpentry, machinery) A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.
noun:  (nautical) A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.
noun:  (botany) The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
noun:  (botany) The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.
noun:  (slang) A gun, normally a personal firearm such as a pistol or machine pistol.
noun:  (slang, uncountable, archaic) Credit offered to a customer, especially for alcoholic drink.
noun:  (slang, LGBTQ) A strap-on.
noun:  (journalism) Synonym of strapline
noun:  (slang, professional wrestling, with "the") A championship belt, or by extension, the title.
noun:  (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.
verb:  (transitive) To beat or chastise with a strap; to whip, to lash.
verb:  (transitive) To fasten or bind with a strap.
verb:  (transitive) To sharpen by rubbing on a strap; to strop.
verb:  (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.

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