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suspenders

NOUN

straps

Synonyms

STRONG

bands braces garters

WEAK

shoulder straps

Example Sentences

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Its Intel profits alone would make Gordon Gekko hang up his suspenders.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

Presiding over the festivities was Frank Seddio, the club’s 79-year-old chairman, who was wearing suspenders and a monogrammed dress shirt.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

Bob Hoyt, who was wearing a leather chauffeur hat and yellow suspenders that look liked measuring tape, served in the Navy from 1966 to 1970.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2025

“Trump’s lawyers are taking a belt and suspenders approach to his cases,” former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani told Salon.

From Salon • Jan. 3, 2024

There was a first-rate shirt, a pair of trousers that looked brand-new, knitted socks, and storebought suspenders that must have been bought out of Aunt Pretty’s pin money.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney