suspender

IPA: sʌspˈɛndɝ

noun

  • Something or someone who suspends.
  • (US) An item of apparel consisting of a strap worn over the shoulder and used to hold up trousers.
  • (Britain) An item of apparel used to hold up a sock or (now especially) a stocking, such as a garter, or each of the fastening-straps attached to a corset or suspender belt.
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Examples of "suspender" in Sentences

  • American men are unashamed to wear suspenders.
  • We are what we are -- half a brassiere, half a suspender.
  • Boy, oh boy! he could see what kind of suspender belt she was wearing.
  • And poor Sean Connery will never live down the suspender-and-adult-diaper look.
  • Those really were some good, solid suspender clips that Cliché had gotten rich off of!
  • The 'suspender' strips are a unique feature made possible by those deep, square armholes - I couldn't pass them up.
  • On the surface, times have indeed changed since the first movie introduced this slick, suspender-sporting embodiment of Reagan-era capitalism.
  • I know a guy who uses the Dex (also back of the arm) and he clips the receiver to a 'suspender' of his bib shorts when cycling so he can look down and see it easily.
  • Among other things, he owned a whole heap of money, the patent for a suspender clip, a village full of hippos, a castle called Margarine, and a baroness named Juliette.
  • The agency said the toll and fare increase would fund a new $33 billion, 10-year capital plan, which includes raising the Bayonne Bridge so that new, larger ships can fit underneath it, and replacing the 592 suspender ropes of the George Washington Bridge, both of which are estimated to cost $1 billion.

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