stretch mark

1. 1.

   a narrow band resulting from tension on the skin (as on abdominal skin after pregnancy)

   Broaderband

   pregnancy

Questions about stretch mark

What does stretch mark mean?

stretch mark means "a narrow band resulting from tension on the skin (as on abdominal skin after pregnancy)".

Is stretch mark a common word?

stretch mark 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.