Meaning

1 senses
  1. (US, dated, dialectal)One strap of a pair of galluses (suspenders).

More definitions
  • common domestic birds and related forms
  • elastic straps that hold trousers up

Examples

1 sentences
  1. In Latin, "gallus" means both "cock" and "Frenchman".

    ruЛатинское слово "gallus" может означать и "петух", и "француз". — soweli_Elepanto

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Forms

plural: galluses
Singulargallus
Pluralgalluses

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • common domestic birds and related forms:genus Gallus
  • elastic straps that hold trousers up:bracesuspender

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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