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strappy en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈstɹapi/ (UK)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From strap + -y.

Meanings

1. (of clothing) Of or characterized by straps.
   • We read newspaper accounts of the Reagans' black-tie evenings, where the women wore long, shimmering gowns and strappy high heels and everyone toasted equally elegant foreign guests. 2010, Laura Bush, Spoken From the Heart:
   • Looking luminous in a yellow, strappy Cavalli dress with her sun-kissed hair cascading down her back, the pop star-turned-actress demands that the reporter shake her groove thing like Beyonce does in her hit video "Crazy in Love." 2003 September 14, Cindy Pearlman, Chicago Sun-Times:
   • The click-click-click of strappy stilettos has given way to the clomp-clomp-clomp of platforms and wedges on the Milan catwalk. 2006 March 3, Hadley Freeman, The Guardian:

Forms

Deriveds

strappies · strappiness · strappily · strappy top