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rubber band en · NOUN
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An elastic band made of rubber (either natural rubber or synthetic rubber).
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Deriveds
rubber-banding · rubberbanding · rubber band airplane
Relateds
rubber jungle
Synonyms
lacquer band · elastic band · gum band · lacky band
rubber band en · VERB
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of rubber-band.
There were yellowed pages of base layouts and plans, a duty roster, and a rubber banded package of papers.
2012, Cheryl Kerr, See Ya, →ISBN, page 130:My mother gave me maybe 150 to 200 letters, […] all rubber banded together month by month and in dates.
1994 September 26, Wayne McGinnis, interview printed in 2000, by Jean Shellenbarger in The 9th Engineer Battalion, First Marine Division, in Vietnam, page 201Prompt them to pick up ten sticks, rubber band them together, and quickly move them to the tens office.
2005, Sarah Morgan Major, Place Value, →ISBN, page 22:
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