strappy

From strap +‎ -y.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈstɹapi/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -æpi

strappy (comparative strappier, superlative strappiest)

1. (of clothing) Of or characterized by straps.
   • 2003 September 14, Cindy Pearlman, Chicago Sun-Times:

     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."

   • 2006 March 3, Hadley Freeman, The Guardian:

     The click-click-click of strappy stilettos has given way to the clomp-clomp-clomp of platforms and wedges on the Milan catwalk.

   • 2010, Laura Bush, Spoken From the Heart:

     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.

• strappily
• strappiness
• strappy top

• strappies