strap
n. countablen. a narrow strip of leather, cloth, or plastic used to hold things together or carry something. You use one to keep your watch on your wrist or to carry a heavy bag over your shoulder.
n. a narrow, flexible strip of material used for fastening, securing, or carrying objects. Often attached to a larger item to provide a handle or to distribute weight across the body.
The strap on my watch is made of brown leather.
She tightened the strap on her backpack before starting the long hike up the mountain.
The designer replaced the standard nylon strap with a reinforced leather version to ensure the heavy camera equipment remained secure during rugged outdoor use.
From a variant of earlier strope (“loop on a harness”), from Middle English strope, stroppe, from Late Old English strop, stropp (“a band, thong, strap; oar-thong”) and Old French estrope (“strap, loop on a harness”), both from Latin stroppus, struppus (“strap”), from Ancient Greek στρόφος (stróphos, “rope”) (compare strophe), from στρέφω (stréphō, “to twist”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European strebʰ- (compare Proto-West Germanic stroppōn (“to twist, writhe”)). Cognate with Scots strap, strop (“strap, band, thong”), Dutch strop (“noose, strop, loop”), Low German Strop (“strap”), German Struppe, Strüppe, Strippe (“string, cord”), Danish strop (“strap”), Swedish stropp (“strap, loop”).
Often used in compound nouns like 'watch strap', 'shoulder strap', or 'chin strap'.