bungee cord

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an elasticized cord, typically with a hook at each end, used to bind items or packages together, to secure a suitcase to a wheeled carrier, etc.

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Also called bungee, shock cord.

Sure enough, my bike rack broke, and I was thankful to have zip ties and a bungee cord in my emergency stash.
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The popular snack has also struck a cord with Paleo dieters, according to Lewis.
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They hold signs depicting a fetus with a hanging umbilical cord.
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He carried an extension cord in case he needed to recharge at one of his emergency spots.
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She tried, says Schreiber, “to cut the umbilical cord to her parents mainly by way of entrance into high culture.”
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Some doctors speculate they are generated in the spinal cord.
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Strange to say, the silken cord yielded to the first pull, as if nothing had been wrong with it at all!
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne
"You spoke of disgrace," she observed gently, swaying her fan before her by its silken cord.
Elster's Folly|Mrs. Henry Wood
He turned his cool regard upon Chief Inspector Kerry, twirling the cord of his monocle about one finger.
Dope|Sax Rohmer
Stop and try a ride, Billy, urged Lance Darby, holding the cord of the tugging kite.
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Taking the scissors from Violet's workbag, she cut the laundry bag carefully into two pieces, saving the cord for a clothesline.
The Box-Car Children|Gertrude Chandler Warner