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Belt and braces man is slang for an overly cautious person.
Suspenders, braces.
n garters. The things used by women to hold up their stockings. They are not used by men to hold up their trousers (Brits call those devices “braces”) or their socks (they call those things, umm, “garters”).
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pant braces; suspenders
Person with a shaven head (bovver boy look) normally wearing ox blood Doc Martin boots (air wear, 18 holes) bleached jeans and Ben Sherman shirts and red braces. A taunt used towards skin heads went as follows: Hey you skin head over there Whats it like to have no hair Is it hot or is it cold Whats it like to be bald.
n braces. {these things}. This is just one small part of a whole category of cross-continental disasters – see “square brackets”.
Braces and bits is London Cockney rhyming slang for breasts (tits).
Belt and braces is London Cockney rhyming slang for races.
n brackets. Something went very wrong at some point in history. Nobody knows what it was, but the end result of it was that, to Brits, [these] are square brackets, and (these) are “brackets”. To Americans, [these] are “brackets” and (these) are “parentheses”. Even {these} ended up being “braces” to Americans but “curly braces” to Brits. It’s possible many people have died as a result of these confusions, although I can’t exactly work out how.
Unkind name for someone wearing braces on their teeth
Braces. He's got his new airs on.
One of the braces attached to the mainmast.
Rude name for someone wearing braces on their teeth.
1 n suspenders. Beware of the cross-definition — in the U.K., “suspenders” are something else entirely (you’ll just have to look it up like a man). 2 metal devices used to straighten one’s teeth (universal).
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n.
A narrow crosspiece of the bottom of a boat against which a rower braces his feet.
n.
Diagonal braces sometimes fixed across the hold.
v. t.
To brace in such a way that opposite strains are resisted; to apply counter braces to.
a.
Situated above the topmast and below the royal mast; designatb, or pertaining to, the third spars in order from the deck; as, the topgallant mast, yards, braces, and the like. See Illustration of Ship.
n.
A two-wheeled carriage for two persons, with a calash top, and the body hung on leather straps, or thorough-braces. It is usually drawn by one horse.
n.
An elastic woven fabric, as a belt, braces or suspenders, etc., made in part of India rubber.
n.
To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces.
v. t.
To furnish with braces; to support; to prop; as, to brace a beam in a building.
n.
One of the temporary wooden braces, placed horizontally across a frame to hold it in position until the deck beams are in; a cross-pawl.
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Being toward the wind, or windward -- opposed to lee; as, weather bow, weather braces, weather gauge, weather lifts, weather quarter, weather shrouds, etc.
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The act of strengthening, supporting, or propping, with a brace or braces; the state of being braced.
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The step of a ladder; a rundle or rung; also, a crosspiece which joins and braces the legs of a chair.
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Any system of braces; braces, collectively; as, the bracing of a truss.
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The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces.
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A pair of suspenders or braces.
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That which braces, binds, or makes firm; a band or bandage.
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One who, or that which, suspends; esp., one of a pair of straps or braces worn over the shoulders, for holding up the trousers.
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To move around by means of braces; as, to brace the yards.
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A system of bars crossing in the middle to form braces between principal longitudinal members, as of a strut.
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