leather
IPA: ɫˈɛðɝ
noun
- A tough material produced from the skin of animals, by tanning or similar process, used e.g. for clothing.
- A piece of the above used for polishing.
- (colloquial) A cricket ball or football.
- (plural: leathers) clothing made from the skin of animals, often worn by motorcycle riders.
- (baseball) A good defensive play
- (boxing) A punch.
- (dated, humorous) The skin.
- A surname.
- Clipping of fruit leather. [Puréed fruit that has been poured on a flat surface to form a layer, then dehydrated, yielding a dry, thin, pliable food product that resembles a sheet of leather.]
verb
- (transitive) To cover with leather.
- (transitive, intransitive) To form a leathery surface (on).
- (transitive) To strike forcefully.
- (transitive) To spank or beat with a leather belt or strap.
adjective
- Made of leather.
- Referring to one who wears leather clothing (motorcycle jacket, chaps over 501 jeans, boots), especially as a sign of sadomasochistic homosexuality.
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Examples of "leather" in Sentences
- The oil should soak into the leather.
- The leather of the ear should be thin.
- The bag was made out of crocodile leather.
- The upholstery was leather cloth with leather seating.
- It is made of silk, leather, sequins, and rhinestones.
- None of it is contained in the surface of the bonded leather.
- Addax skin can be processed into a very luxuriant soft leather.
- The leather helps protect the skin of the cheek from the metal buckle.
- Would that be in leather, Sheila or perhaps the prefered Whore-House Red?
- The skin of the flippers are prized for use as shoes and assorted leather goods.
- Blue with blue, and brown with brown, but the leather is all brown – no blue leather here.
- But there's a much better sort of leather than that for Bible binding; I mean _shoe leather_.
- Plus, today, the balls are harder, they're wound tighter, and I'm sure the leather is a little thinner.
- Also, I think I've seen their president in "leather" shoes stepping out of a vehicle with "leather" interior.
- I hoof it over to the platform as the second contestant, a black Elvis dressed all in leather, is singing “All Shook Up”.
- I don't think sexy Kate in leather is gonna make it past THOSE OLD BOYS!) and carrying the words BAD or DEVIL in the title is unworthy of consumption.
- People had to eat stuff that they would never eat in normal life, like making soups of leather boots (because leather is of animal origin) or boiling the wallpaper because the glue with which they were attached to walls contained a bit of organic stuff.
- With her long blonde hair, micro-dresses that may incite the prurient to hope for an occasional fleeting glimpse of her underwear and photographs on her book jackets of her in leather dresses, arms akimbo, like a stern but voluptuous school mistress, she is not, as Mr. Moore wrote, “faux glam.”