suspender

[suh-spen-der]

noun

Usually suspenders. Also called, especially British, braces. adjustable straps or bands worn over the shoulders with the ends buttoned or clipped to the waistband of a pair of trousers or a skirt to support it.

British. garter.

a hanging cable or chain in a suspension bridge connecting the deck with the suspension cable or chain.

a person or thing that suspends.

Origin of suspender

1515–25; 1800–10, Americanism for def 1; suspend + -er¹

Related formssus·pend·er·less, adjective

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Related Words for suspender

braces, garters

Examples from the Web for suspender

Historical Examples of suspender

I don't know why, unless because of his one suspender, and then it ought to be Strap.
Gloria and Treeless Street
Annie Hamilton Donnell
"He didn't have the suspender on his face," Pee-wee shouted.
Roy Blakeley's Camp on Wheels
Percy Keese Fitzhugh
Oh, they had me all distributed, down to my suspender buttons!
The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories
Various
It cut the suspender and let the torpedo sink to the bottom.
In the Track of the Troops
R.M. Ballantyne
But how much more than his shirt depended on this granddaughter of Suspender!
The Forsyte Saga, Complete
John Galsworthy

British Dictionary definitions for suspender

suspender

noun

(often plural) British

an elastic strap attached to a belt or corset having a fastener at the end, for holding up women's stockings
a similar fastener attached to a garter worn by men in order to support socksUS and Canadian equivalent: garter

(plural) US and Canadian a pair of straps worn over the shoulders by men for holding up the trousersAlso called (in Britain and certain other countries): braces

a person or thing that suspends, such as one of the vertical cables that carries the deck in a suspension bridge

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