strappy
adjUK /ˈstɹapi/
Etymology From strap + -y.
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Of clothing Of or characterized by straps.
- 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:
1 more example
- 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:
- Derived terms
- strappily, strappiness, strappy top, strappies