garter belt

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   a wide belt of elastic with straps hanging from it; worn by women to hold up stockings

   Synonymssuspender belt

   Broaderundergarment

Questions about garter belt

What does garter belt mean?

garter belt means "a wide belt of elastic with straps hanging from it; worn by women to hold up stockings".

What is another word for garter belt?

Close synonyms include suspender belt. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is garter belt a common word?

garter belt is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.